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weekends spent microdosing before participating in meticulously planned orgies and other forms of rationalized libertinism—tales from a smart-watch world in which the only taboo left was wasting time.

Lázár once told me, half-jokingly, that there’s nothing as true as calumny.

Sin is not just what the catechism says it is. Sin is not simply that which we commit. Sin is also what we desire but are too weak to do.

Any narrative that moves from scene to scene and episode to episode not according to the exigencies of cause and effect but according to some abstract scheme

By definition—and of aesthetic necessity—a story contains profluence, a requirement best satisfied by a sequence of causally related event