The nonfiction author Cutter Wood on how the comedian’s work helped him imbue minor characters with emotional life
Subterranean life isn’t as quiet as you might think.
“To sense this world of waters known to the creatures of the sea we must shed our human perceptions of length and breadth and time and place, and enter vicariously into a universe of all-pervading water.”
Hidden in the tusk of a 34-year-old mastodon was a record of time and space that helped explain his violent death.