Father and Son (2010) Dan Chiasson Only much later did they see, the two of them, that, never knowing one another, there was nothing not to know; that not being to begin with meant those later, more drastic negations negated nothing; this was to be the poignant part of it. The nothing nevertheless would someday end; and the wish— he wished it in a priory, he wished it in a mall— was that the ending to this nothing might be, if not an event, at least not a non-event. Which, in the end, when it happened, it wasn’t. --

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