This weird feeling of longing and discontent is always approaching me unexpectedly, like a strange planet, orbiting around me on its lone ellipse of gravity. It approaches me always when I am at my happiest, my warmest, my most unprotected. It comes slowly from my back, starting its slide-show while taking my clothes off one by ...

I once had a friend named Gosha. He lived on our balcony with one leg bound to the railing. Most of the time he walked around with his other leg thinking much of himself, but every time I brought him a handful of large corn, he got very excited and unimportantly humble. He was generally ...