Volume 43, Number 1 · January 11, 1996
The Hovering Life
By William H. Gass
The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil, translated by Sophie Wilkins, by Burton Pike
Knopf, 1,774 pp., $60.00
In St. Louis a warm wind had unexpectedly arrived to draw moisture from the cold ground and cover runways with layers of dense fog. The flight boards in LaGuardia said 'Canceled' for Chicago, too. Detroit was socked in, Cleveland growing gray, so there'd be no back door through which I might return. I thought I was traveling light, but my briefcase was galley heavy and I heard my squashed socks moan; though perhaps it was static on the line I was hearing when I tried to phone for a room at one of the airport motels. A faint foreign voice believed they might have a suite for $220 if I hurried. None of the others answered.
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