The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror.
The roses started him thinking, how the oddity of them was beautiful and how that oddity was contrived to give them value. __t just struck me _ clear and complete all at once _ no long figuring about it._ He realized that children could be designed. __nd I thought to myself, now that would a rose garden worthy of a man__ interest.__e children would smile and hug him and he would grin around at us and send the twins for a pot of cocoa from the drink wagon and me for a bag of popcorn because the red-haired girls would just throw it out when they finished closing the concession anyway. And we would all be cozy in the warm booth of the van, eating popcorn and drinking cocoa and feeling like Papa__ roses.
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The roses started him thinking, how the oddity of them was beautiful and how that oddity was contrived to give them value. __t just struck me _ clear and complete all at once _ no long figuring about it._ He realized that children could be designed. __nd I thought to myself, now that would a rose garden worthy of a man__ interest.__e children would smile and hug him and he would grin around at us and send the twins for a pot of cocoa from the drink wagon and me for a bag of popcorn because the red-haired girls would just throw it out when they finished closing the concession anyway. And we would all be cozy in the warm booth of the van, eating popcorn and drinking cocoa and feeling like Papa__ roses.
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