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“Cyrus father tended to avoid claiming knowledge not his own, though of course he didn’t have his wife’s driven curiosity. Cyrus prided himself in descending from people comfortable sitting in uncertainty. He himself knew little about anything and tried to remember that. He read once about a Sufi prayer that went Lord, increase my bewilderment. That was the prayer in its entirety.”

“A drug works until it doesn’t. Dependence grows until it eclipses everything else in the addicts life. Rotten sun. Joy withers in the absence of light.”

“What was there to complain about? A murdered wife? A sore back? The wrong grade copper? Living happened till it didn’t. There was no choice in it. To say no to a new day would be unthinkable. So each morning you said yes, then stepped into the consequence.”