Status Updates From Angel Down

None of you understand time. What does it matter which nations win which wars? Future wars will reverse all gains. God is on no one’s side,

“and how many times, while the flaking paint of the apartment flapped like shamefly wings from the vibrations of the organist…,had Cyril tried to pull his father from his whirlpool of ponderings, pull him literally by the sleeve, only for the Bishop to gently, crushingly, extricate his son‘s fingers and hand him the Bible to read, the way Red Cross nurses give a man about to be amputated a rag to bite on..”

This prose is so astonishing….with each “and” paragraph, I wonder if the author didn’t just take each one and decide to craft it impeccably alone— each stanza an island, while at the same time, it feels so effortlessly perfect and natural.

Daniel Kraus, I bow to you