When I pointed out the other day that prominent GCs had been pretty silent on #RoeVsWade or had tried deflecting onto trans people, I had this response from a GC.

And west winds, with muskie wing About the cedar’n alleys fling Nard, and Cassia’s balmie smells.

It is often asked, Why are faith-cures sometimes more speedy than some of the cures wrought through Christian Scientists?

March 24, 2010 as I take down the navy blue folder that has always been devoted to my notes on style, I notice on opening it that the cover's inner flap is concealed behind a glued-on sheet of paper. […] Without my usual hesitation, I rip it off the way one rips off, unforgets, peels, ferrets out, seeking the pure treasure, proof of the existence of life before us, without us, the book of our dead and of our betrayals.