While analysts—like Nick Carraway's, in Baz Luhrmann's Freudian-friendly adaptation of The Great Gatsby—would have us eliminate our unmeetable desires, they miss the point: delusion is the stuff of life.

The wedding chamber at Toronto's city hall is located on the third floor and is available to rent in thirty-minute intervals. The author witnessed the marriage described below, although the names have been changed and minor details compressed. This week: a missing ring and its replacement.

James Salter's depictions of sex as a glorious, writhing inevitability in A Sport and a Pastime divulge certain truths about companionship. Meanwhile, he paints the entire world blue. The fifth in a series of essays on reading as personal experience.