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P453 We beat death by living while we are here. Death may be infinite, but, as we know, infinity is a relative concept. We can create a bigger infinity out of our life. By feeling.
P456 🎵 Song: Blackbird by the Beatles

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

P447 Alberto: I have danced and dived and loved more than most ever do. I have been true to myself. But I need to stay here. I need to stay and be with you both. And enjoy whatever I have left. I would rather a single day on Earth than a lifetime elsewhere. This has been my paradise.

P406 We are never at the finish line of understanding. There is always something about life and the universe that we are still to discover.
P415 Nos alzamos come el océano. We rise like the ocean.
P447 How do you feel about the decision not to go to Salacia? Have you seen 1985 movie Cocoon? When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.

P312 Euler’s Number ‘e’ / Sofia Torres, the most powerful politician on the island.
P355 He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
🎵 P378 The theme to Hill Street Blues
🎵 P384 Memories of Green by Vangelis (Blade Runner movie) My nieces who are trained ballerinas one said: that one is unencumbered by classical learning.

P265 Duende is a Spanish word with two main meanings: a mythical goblin-like spirit and a deep artistic state of emotional intensity.
P296 Marta is an astrophysicist and Alberto’s daughter.
P308 Sublimotion: The worlds most expensive restaurant
P309 The destruction of Ibiza, Eighth Wonder Developer, Art Butler.

P258 You may be aware of ‘complex science’. That hybrid of science and mathematics that tries to tackle the tricky stuff. Not rocket science. the study of how large numbers of independent, interacting parts give rise to collective behaviors, patterns, and properties that cannot be predicted by looking at the pieces in isolation

P235 Alberto: But recently, my talent’s faded. … It makes us more powerful until it doesn’t. Doesn’t make us immortal.
P237 Alberto: Christina disappeared in the ocean on a moonless night. Francisco Palau … And there are three hundred pages full of his own handwriting in this church.

P142 Plant Nolletia chrysocomoides is a small, perennial subshrub belonging to the daisy family
P194 You see, if you want to visit a new world, you don’t need a spacecraft. All you need to do is change your mind.
P217 Shut up, Brian. Grace sealed Brian’s lips because he was being obnoxious to a waiter.
P231 Francisco Palau, a priest/monk spent time in a cave in Es Vedrà.
La Presencia is a portal to Salacia.

P96 Anhedonia: is the reduced ability or complete inability to experience pleasure, joy, or interest in activities that a person previously enjoyed.
P102 Sabine
P111 Alpha Centauri 4.367 años luz.
P130 Maybe when you scream in silence the help arrives silently too.
P139 Sometimes the illusion is the reality we don’t understand yet. (Alberto to Grace)

P75 Christina’s ex-husband is Johan, a Dutch hippy
P76 Lieke Van Der Berg, Christina and Johan’s daughter is a famous DJ
P80 The plant growing outside the front door was watered with the contents of refilling Olive jar.
P81 “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” - Sherlock Holmes

P53 Pictures of Christina with Alberto Ribas, author of Impossible Live
P57 (Christina to Grace) But there is more to life than we know. And there is more to our minds than we realize.
P66 Georg Cantor, set theory, different sizes of infinity.
P70 The rock named “Es Vedrà” is similar to rocks in Cannon Beach, Oregon
P72 Rosella at the supermarket has a tattoo of Tanit, the goddess of the moon

P53 Pictures of Christina with Alberto Ribas, author of Impossible Live
P57 (Christina to Grace) But there is more to life than we know. And there is more to our minds than we realize.
P66 Georg Cantor, set theory, different sizes of infinity.
P70 The rock named “Es Vedrà” is similar to rocks in Cannon Beach, Oregon
P72 Rosella at the supermarket has a tattoo of Tanit, the goddess of the moon

P3 I have never believed in magic, and I still don’t. (Grace to Maurice)
P6 Death of Grace’s son Daniel; April 2, 1992
P15 St Christoper, Patron Son of Travelers 🎵 Song: Blackbird by the Beatles
P40 And it becomes dizzying to realize how many nows are happening all at once. (Grace)
P47 I don’t want to sound ungrateful, but it was, quite possibly, the least attractive house on the whole of Ibiza.

character List:
Francisco Palau (Priest), Salacia (made up place), Marta (astrophysicist / Alberto’s daughter), Art Butler (developer), Sofia Torres (politician), La Presencia (giver), …

Character List:
Maurice (student), Grace Winters, Karl Winters, Esther (Grace’s sister), Christina Van Der Berg Paradakis (Grace’s colleague), Paul the cab driver, Daniel (Grace and Karls son), Alberto Ribas (Christina’s friend), Rosella (supermarket), Johan (Christina’s ex-husband), Lieke Van Der Berg, Sabine,