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Conditionality creates the irreducible gap between the world as you wish it to be and what it actually is: a place ill suited to creatures in search of meaning.

As the blank fields in her family tree gradually became populated, the growing orderliness felt good. She dug out the histories of her distant relatives in cutting libraries and registers, and found that they had the grand, inclusive sweep of novels… [it] constantly reminded her that death, viewed from far enough away, amounts to no more than faded ink on dry paper.