"The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go."
Getting a little heavy on the New Yorker pieces, but this is just too good.
I discovered this while looking for another article. Some great names in here ("Mavis Stranger," "Minona Seagrove"). Wonderful vignettes of hitchhiking. But the best imagery is about how the place you're from spins you both like a web and a top. How true that rings.
Sisyphus couldn’t stop pushing his boulder—but you can.
Don Luigi Ciotti leads an anti-Mafia organization, and for decades he has run a secret operation that liberates women from the criminal underworld.
Scientists have shattered our self-image as principled beings, motivated by moral truths. Some wonder whether our ideals can survive the blow to our vanity.