Familiaris

by David Wroblewski

Walden, he advised, was to be read only when desperate, and only “with a die at hand. One consumes a sentence, rolls the die, and leaps so many sentences before risking another glance.” This simple procedure would limit the damage inflicted.

Roll the die

whatever gift Miss Diffy once had for the oral interpretation of fiction fled her body eons ago, along with the color in her hair and the pigment in her skin.

Gift of reading