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‘She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo.

“Pick me up,” is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently.’

“Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.”