Michael Malone - Weebly

Ramona Dingley returned slowly to bed.
And now all Dingley Falls slept, on a Founder's
Day that the closest star would finally see three hundred
years from now.
CONCERNING PLOTS
We are all premeditators, plotting one thing or
another. Hawk Haig is plotting to be rich, Chin Lam
Henry is plotting to free her husband, Limus Barnum is
plotting to be accepted or avenged. No one can return
to spontaneity. Language will not let us go, but bars
with its sword our return to that wordless, thoughtless
Eden. Beanie Abernathy wishes there were no words,
yet even she must write a letter. Even Sloan Highwick
must have some plot in mind, if only how to persuade
his host to offer him a martini.
There are those, like Walter Saar, who actively plot
against themselves, and those, like Ernest Ransom,
whose indifference becomes a plot against others.
There are those whose plots are mysteries to
themselves. Judith Haig is such a person; so is Richard