"Speech is Civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates."
The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
"Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield
"The Storm" by Kate Chopin
"A Clean Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway
"The Use of Force" by William Carlos Williams
"The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula Le Guin
