“we've popped out ceiling tiles and found badly spliced cables hidden from view”
“Dan thought of love as defined by books, cobwebbed and hidden from view by the past. Too bad a love like that didn't actually exist. In the twentieth century one had to fake it.”
“A superhero spliced criminals from victims. In Gowanus things tended to be more mixed up.”
“At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity--like the forces that control the weather, that capable of destruction, that hidden from view.”
“Whatever is of consequence in life, is always hidden from view. What is manifest is the outer cover; what remains unmanifest is the soul within.”
“If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.”