Love is the Law
“At the best of times, the walk home from Bernstein’s is a long one, one suited for sultry August nights when the fireflies outnumber the mosquitoes. It had only been a couple of months before when I’d walk home and imagine sweating out the black poisons of the day. And I’d be safe, unseen by road traffic or anyone else except maybe that old devil moon in the otherwise empty sky. But Chelsea had seen me, or so she said. Did she see me that night when Bernstein did his trick; did she see the saty...r crash through the window and run into the woods?
This afternoon was colder than chilly. An autumnal near frost, the wind fueled by the Long Island Sound. It hurt my bones, the wind did, and I decided to walk into it. When I was a kid my father took me to the docks at the edge of Port Jefferson and explained to me that my second grade teacher was wrong—Christopher Columbus didn’t discover that the world was round. The ancients knew it, from peering out at the horizon and watching ships come in over the curve of the Earth.MoreLess
This afternoon was colder than chilly. An autumnal near frost, the wind fueled by the Long Island Sound. It hurt my bones, the wind did, and I decided to walk into it. When I was a kid my father took me to the docks at the edge of Port Jefferson and explained to me that my second grade teacher was wrong—Christopher Columbus didn’t discover that the world was round. The ancients knew it, from peering out at the horizon and watching ships come in over the curve of the Earth.MoreLess
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