Status Updates From Pan

"thoughts unsheathing from their words, becoming bright loose arcs if panic."

Damn those are some words

Ivanhoe, Oscar wilde, Bach, and now he says
“I’m interested in Ancient Rome”

I like this kid more with every page

This is some excellent writing

Hello, I said. this was a landline. No one back that had cell phones except for some kids fathers and their cars attached to their cars. They were called car phones. Very few people I knew even had caller ID. When you answer the phone you had to say hello in the voice appropriate for everyone and anyone. Hello, you were speaking to a being with a face to come with an age to come with u

"As I walked by the children's book section, kids pressed against the glass, making horrific faces, showing what they'd do to me if they ever got loose. Their mothers hovered in the background, dim, harassed figures. Once in a while a really little kid would streak by, half naked, waving a book, a stick, or a diaper."

Ivanhoe is a pretty difficult book for a kid in highschool