“To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.”
“The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.”
“We live in condensations of our imagination”
“that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.”
“Only the flesh dies, Kerry. The flesh is vapor. When the vapor drifts away and is gone, only we remain.”
“It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ”