Status Updates From Underworld

Jaggedness

“Is the memory thin and bitter and does it shame you with its fundamental untruth—all nuance and wishful silhouette? Or does the power of transcendence linger, the sense of an event that violates natural forces, something holy that throbs on the hot horizon, the vision you crave because you need a sign to stand against your doubt?”

On pg. 23: "It seems the Soviet Union has conducted an atomic test at a secret location somewhere inside its own borders. They have exploded a bomb in plain unpretending language."

On pg. 25: " 'Real baseball' 'The thing that happens in the sun.' "

It's all been leading to this.