These girls create a Hollywood frisson by the pool

a young couple as they teeter around the Idea of Christmas, trying to avoid internecine festive warfare

humanity is these days a vainglorious, much debased word

And now the compere was calling my brother's name.

the Guardianistas fey fools, skipping across the stage

his gift is for the crafting of exquisite narratives, shows shaped like Alice Munro stories, bathetic and beautiful

that unusual triune skill set

the two sides of that chiasmus would be in constant tension

in mad cadenzas of simian gibberish that break suddenly into glorious soliloquies, then plunge again into nonsense

If Wallace insists on awareness, his particular creed is--to use a Wallacerian word--extrorse; awareness must move always in an outward direction, away from the self.