It is not uncommon, up to the age of 3 weeks, to discover one of the hawklets missing from the nest, sometimes lying dead on the ground below.

Separately and then together, we forged these theaters, these instrumentalities, these constellations of activities, these collective outposts, these—God forgive me!—institutions in order to preserve and re-create, in new forms, the art of theater then fusting in us unused.

John stood Laura up at the movie theater.

It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered away as I walked through the village […]