We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

by Karen Joy Fowler

it’s a dry heat,” they kept telling me, though once the thermometer tops a hundred I think that’s just crazy talk.

Apparently, all you needed to be considered normal was no evidence to the contrary.

About Washoe, Roger Fouts has said, she taught him that in the phrase human being, the word being is much more important than the word human.

Life is all arrivals and departures.