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And so around its track
This thing called the heart winds,
A little clockwork train
To entertain our minds.
[Le Tellier quoting Fernando Pessoa]

If this were a game of Happy Families, then he could have been the youngest of the Karamazov brothers.

I wanted to pinpoint the moment just after that instant, unfounded attraction, the fraction of time when anonymous desire gives way to specific tenderness, when the attraction of a face is replaced by the sweet pleasures of memories.

It felt as if time had taken a step to one side, a divergence as fine as a crack in the glaze on porcelain.