The Buzzards

The sense of raw mysterious reality is overwhelming… Its subtlety fully matches that of its subject and it yields more of the truth about the dilemma of American democracy than 10 times its weight in political science.

The Daily Telegraph, U.K.

“You are selling your sincerity, Alex,” she said to him.

It shocked him, so that for a moment he couldn’t answer, and had to remind himself that it wasn’t up to her to make allowances, because she was ill. People thought her unyielding, because when she yielded she kept something back to herself. But that was senseless; he knew her better. He took her stare slowly and let his voice drop to the lowest register.

“I have never, Claudia, I have never been more sincere.”

She turned away again and studied a patch of sun on the stones.

“I didn’t say you were weren’t sincere. I know you are sincere,” she said. “I said that you were selling your sincerity.”