Over the course of two sweltering days of rambling the West Bank, we squeeze through a thicket of visible and imaginary borders, fences, walls, frontiers, barriers, no-go zones. After a year steeped in the oceanic vistas of Arabia, of Africa, such a dicing of landscape into countless micro-turfs makes me dizzy.

The man-about-town began to follow her, but along the other side of the boulevard, keeping his eyes trained on her.

… feminine and neuter articles used in the Greek are grammatical designations, and not designations founded on actual sexhood. There cannot be sexhood before flesh and form were created.

And the fans, they watch me on phones / So everybody’s preeing, that’s how the ting goes