Constant was fully dressed in blue-green evening shorts and a dinner jacket of gold brocade.

2022: We invent ourselves as American writers—it's not a clerisy we’re born into... — Edward Hirsch, The Heart of American Poetry (Library of America, 2022)

Since the power was out, we used an old-fashioned nonelectrical can opener.

He walks over to the wine crates holding the LPs, gets infuriated with the brutal Luddism of any man who still deals in vinyl and needle.