Status Updates From Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"The young man proudly names his scars for his lover, the old man alone before a mirror erases his scars with his eyes and sees himself whole."

"The testimony of experts bears out the same point: it's rough out there."

"Here was a new light on the intricate texture of things in the world, the actual plot of the present moment in time after the fall: the way we the living are nibbled and nibbling—not held aloft on a cloud in the air but bumbling pitted and scarred and broken through a frayed and beautiful land."

"A nossa vida é um ténue desenho na superfície do mistério, como os ociosos e curvos túneis que alguns insectos escavam na face de uma folha. Devemos tentar obter uma visão mais ampla, olhar para a paisagem toda, vê-la de facto e descrever o que se passa aqui."

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