A COMPLETE LIST, DISCOVERED BY THE AUTHOR THROUGH MANY YEARS OF EARNEST CONTEMPLATION, OF ALL OF THE MOMENTS IN LIFE (AND ONLY THOSE MOMENTS) THAT ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY SUBLIME AND TRAGIC by Geoffrey Wessel

When you see a bird flying.

All others.


Geoffrey Wessel is an American diplomat and amateur philosopher who enjoys thunderstorms and once translated the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights into 720 lines of iambic pentameter. He holds degrees from the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill and the London School of Economics. He lives with his spouse in Washington, DC.

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