Appetite Without a Self

Some men arrive at the worst thing by feeling. Eli Brandt arrived at it by arithmetic.He has gone over the sum many times, in the careful, patient way of a man who no longer expects to be argued out of it, and every time it comes out the same. The people he loves are heavier for him. His wife is tired in a way he is sure he caused. His brother would be lighter without his weight. The correct and m...