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Darragh McKeon
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Ireland
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June 2013
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All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
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published
2014
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33 editions
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Remembrance Sunday
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“It's the same sky we've always live under. It's just in a different mood.”
― All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
― All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
“Grigory understands the power of the unspoken. To progress is to become fluent in the language. His rise in stature increased its pace when Grigory noticed that people in positions of power could hold almost an entire conversation with only a few simple words. He gained influence by understanding what his older, more junior colleagues did not: that power lurks in silences, in whispered conversations in the corner of a room, in contained gestures: a dip of the head, a pat of the forearm. It has often struck him that the most powerful men he has met also have the greatest range of physical articulations, a vital ability in a sphere where a misinterpreted comment can end even the most celebrated of careers.”
― All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
― All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
“And she took this card five days a week, for the past three years. Punching in and out, marking her time.
Maria worked into the work, eventually finding comfort in camshafts. It had taken months for this to manifest itself--it was endless and repetitive and crushingly dull--but after a time the religious beauty of the task emerged. The detail, the exactitude required in working the lathe. How deep can an action go? How perfect can a human act be? Maria worked to a precision of thousandth of a millimeter. A micron, they called it. A micron.
And the repetition. And the repetition. And the repetition.”
― All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Maria worked into the work, eventually finding comfort in camshafts. It had taken months for this to manifest itself--it was endless and repetitive and crushingly dull--but after a time the religious beauty of the task emerged. The detail, the exactitude required in working the lathe. How deep can an action go? How perfect can a human act be? Maria worked to a precision of thousandth of a millimeter. A micron, they called it. A micron.
And the repetition. And the repetition. And the repetition.”
― All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
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