Communications must destroy localness, by a slow, inevitable process.

“Horace Quinn remembered questioning Adam so very long ago, remembered him as a …”

“Adam found his father out. It wasn’t that his father changed but that some new …”

“Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, “whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons o…”

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”