A vulgar preference for the novel over the good.

After 25 good years, the bill has come due.

Decades later, encouraged by a friend to obtain his old psychiatric reports, he was mortified to read what he had perceived to be a courageous hero’s journey described as the petulant dithering of a timid neurotic.

She was eager to talk about the most fascinating person she had ever met, herself.

A man. A plan.
Diazepam.

Increasingly, he’d been thinking about simplifying his life.
Increasingly, he’d been thinking about drinking.

Thoughts seemed to harbor great peril, but their absence even more.

Sleepless hours attempting to think great thoughts. The smarter you get, the more ordinary you know yourself to be.

1) Forced confluences of random or variable systems
2) Dislocation of expected boundaries in relation to contents