Winter. It made things visible.

“What would happen if you did just shut a door and stop speaking? Hour after hou…”

“Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.”

“Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the ver…”

“The novel, he was saying, was a flabby old whore. A flabby old whore! the older…”