Status Updates From Children of God (The Sparro...

That night, he meditated on the absence of magnitude, on the cypher that separates positive from negative, on the nothing, on the No Thing. When such comparisons were made, orgasm became as inexhaustibly beautiful as mathematics, its gradations-- it's inequalities-- sublimely arrayed for the highly aesthete to recognize and appreciate. Art cannot exist without inequality, which is itself established by comparison.

Mistaking bloodless lethargy for calm, she believed as well that she felt no grief. With practice, she told herself, she had come to accept that tears were no remedy for death. Her life had been blessedly unburdened by happiness. When some period of fleeting contentment ended, Sofia did not register it as outrageous, but merely noted a return to life's normal condition. Rain falls on everyone; lightning strikes some.

Like a starving woman with a good meal, I have consumed this delicious book far too quickly and I fear for my digestion. But it was delicious nonetheless.