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Hai was actually there the day Sony first became enamored of the Civil War. It was like witnessing Larry Bird pick up a basketball for the first time, he thought.
Hai thought, looking back. How easily a face is disfigured in the abstraction a pile of bodies so naturally makes.
Remember, I’m your son. The scientist.”
“They can’t just do that. He has to get a package or something. Does he get a package?”
“The hell you think this is, FedEx?” BJ kept patting her face with the handkerchief. “There’s no packages here, not for part-timers.”
Hai watched the Blue Chickie sign spin on its axis as the
van lurched back on the road, and thought about that man in Virginia, lying very still on the floor of the walk-in fridge, his soul hovering above him waiting for his shift to end so he could go home.
For some reason this reminded him of those emperor hogs, so named not to signify the act of ruling—but to f...
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“So this is the last supper,” she chuckled and pushed a dab of mashed potatoes on her lips into her mouth.
“Kaip senieji giedojo, taip jaunieji dainuoja,” Grazina said, but he didn’t hear her.
and how Philip, also known as Metacomet, was subsequently beheaded,
That’s when he realized he’d been falling this whole time—he just couldn’t feel it, the trash forming a zero-gravity cushion beneath him. “I’m scared, Ma,” he whispered. “Of what? What are you talking about?”
And that’s when he heard it—not the river’s rush, but the hogs. Dragged by their hooves into the emperor’s butchery, they were screaming from a galaxy far, far away, inside him. And they sounded just like people. Soft, simple people, who live only once.
The scene on King Philip’s Bridge in chapter 2 was inspired by Chen Si, a Chinese man who, as of this writing, has prevented at least 469 people from dying by suicide off the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing, China.
The line “But don’t be afraid of life, son. Life is good when we
do good things for each other” (here) is in reference to the last page of Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, translated by Cons...
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