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

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

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)

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.