Down the Bathroom Plumbing/ Woody Allen

Integrity is a relative concept, best left to the penetrating minds of Jean-Paul Sartre or Hannah Arendt.  The reality is, when winter winds howl and the only affordable dwelling shapes up as a cardboard carton on Second Avenue, principles and lofty ideals have a tendency to vanish in a whirlpool down the bathroom plumbing, and […]

Glow of Virtue/ Roberto Bolaños

That night, it dawned on Pelletier and Espinoza that they were generous, so generous that if they had been together when they made the discovery, they would have gone out to celebrate it. Each was dazzled by the splendor of his own virtue, a glow that certainly does not last very long—since virtue, except in […]