Richard

“Sometimes when he was dealing with people, he felt like he was operating one of those claw machines on a boardwalk, those shovel things where you tried to scoop up a prize but the controls were too unwieldy and you worked at too great a remove.”
― Anne Tyler, Redhead by the Side of the Road

“Tomorrow he'd see Meg, just as his Luddite ancestor met the hangman.”
― Stanley Middleton, Holiday