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We are creatures of great change. Not a single atom in our bodies today was there when we were children. Every bit of us has been replaced many times over. We flake away and become new. Whatever we are now, we are not the stuff from which we were originally made. All the people we once were. All the people we had once hoped to be.

— Colum McCann, Twist: A Novel (Random House, March 25, 2025)

Notes:

• Man can write. I’d read anything he puts on paper….
• NY Times Book Review: “A Novel Explores the Undersea Cables That Connect the World. The crew in Colum McCann’s new book makes complex repairs deep in the ocean. Human bonds prove harder to mend.”
• Guardian Book Review: “Colum McCann: I like having my back against the Wall”
• Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

facundus, in the national library in madrid

mahiet

You see, it is now the belief that pattern is loud and noisy and to be restrained by large solid fields of color… but this has not been a design universal. Place your cut out photos above a background of contrasting interlaced squares! Abut a vermilion red with ultramarine! We live so briefly before we die!!