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In Clifford's Spiral, the stroke survivor’s past is blurry, and his memories are in pieces. He asks himself:

Who was Clifford Olmstead Klovis?

Stroke sufferer Clifford Klovis tries to piece together the colorful fragments of his memories. Should he even bother trying to work it all out?

Chapter 14

The human being is a marvelous, a wondrous, creation. Alone among species, except perhaps for the cockroach, people are endlessly adaptable. If we survive long enough to launch settlers to Mars or some good-sized asteroid, some of them will no doubt survive, despite seemingly insurmountable challenges. Cockroaches can eat the wiring in old TV sets, and we will eat shit or each other if it becomes necessary. The Donner Party discovered this, as did Napoleon’s army, the Germans at Stalingrad, and Rwandans who thought their life mission was to hack their neighbors to pieces with machetes.

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