In the Drink
“Skye,” I found myself writing one afternoon, “Thank you so much for your fascinating letter. Of course I’m thrilled that you liked my new book as much as the first one, and I’m delighted to hear that you share my aims concerning the establishment of a strict death penalty in every state.”I stopped writing and yawned, then leaned back in my chair and stared up at the ceiling as if casting my eyes heavenward, praying for rain or succor. I noticed small heaps of dead moths piled up inside the chan...delier’s glass tulips, each as small and dry as a flaked-off chip of gray paint. I looked up through the glass at them for a while, wondering idly why, over all the thousands of years since the discovery of fire, moths as a species hadn’t stopped getting sucked into lamps and fireplaces and candle flames and lanterns and streetlights—wasn’t that exactly the sort of thing evolution was designed to correct? They deserved to sizzle to death on lightbulbs if they were too stupid to figure it out.MoreLess
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