Ari’s Reviews > Ways and Means > Status Update

"She was neither proud of her wealth nor protective of it; she would have liked everyone to have as much money as she did, if she thought about money at all. But her preference was not to think about it."

Mark sensed that he was missing context, news of some recent turn in the family dynamics. How easy it was, from the safety of his apartment, to forget that his parents and brother were real, thay they moved through space and time every day just as he did. And how wearying, his belated realization that he would now have a front-row seat to their lives.

The buildings on either side gave to these objects a kind of vertically oriented velocity, a sense of accumulation and futurity, a climaxward charge. For years Alistair had subsisted on this charge, harnessed it to fuel his studying, working, fucking, fantasizing. But where in the end had all this dreaming led him? To a Greyhound. To nowhere at all.