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She said something about life for her parents' generation. How it had been enough to raise a family, make a home, keep a job. Why isn't it enough any more? Why does everyone want to win the lottery or be a film star?
Or have an affair.

Inside her marriage there were too many clocks and not enough time. Too much furniture and too little space. Outside her marriage, there would be nothing to hold her, nothing to shape her. The space she found would be outer space. Space without gravity or weight, where bit by bit the self disintegrates.

There is always a city. There is always a civilisation. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe.
Sometimes you are the city, sometimes you are the civilisation, but to become that city, that civilisation, you once took a pickaxe and destroyed what you hated, and what you hated was what you did not understand.