Status Updates From Blinding Light

[President Clinton's] woes, the scandal, the repeated denials and counterattacks, were on the radio.... As he listened, he saw the president's pink sheepish face and blue uncertain eyes, the bags of sleeplessness under them, as naked as a man's features could be, as blank and pathetic and symmetrical as a target.

You don't have to love me. Love is a burden. It's a pain. It causes unhappiness. Just be my friend..... Love doesn't make you better. It excludes the whole world. For a brief period you have an adoring partner, and later an enemy. Love is like some horrible twisted religion the way it changes you. And afterwards, when love ends, you're lost.

Darkness was a zone Steadman entered in order to know his mind and advance the narrative of his book. Daylight was unhelpful and ambiguous for seeming to be true, yet it was shabby and misleading.