Night Thoughts

An account of waking at night to a bedroom, a body, and a life that have lost their familiarity.

open quote Night thoughts, I imagine, offer a glimpse into the lunatic's world. For the lunatic sees a single fact or object with such utter lucidity, but also with such utter myopia, that it assumes a false appearance—false, at least, in the judgment of common sense. close quote

Essays

  • The Communion of Strangers
  • A Sense of All Sorrows
  • Meditation During a Rainstorm
  • A Visit to the City
  • Confessions of a Carnivore
  • In Praise of Passion
  • On Being Nothing
  • Night Thoughts
  • The Electric Present
  • The Lonely Race
  • The Finite Experience of Infinite Life
  • The Great Divide
  • Winter of Discontent
  • Odyssey of Desire