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The tenaciousness of memory, its viciousness really—witness the desire over history for revenge—has forever been a sign that the brain recovers. But it's unclear what it recovers. . .Things circle, all is flutter. Things fall down and rise up. Hope and remorse, beauty and viciousness, and imagination, wherever it doggedly hides, unveil petulant realities. I live in my mind, and I don't." character limits, like usual.

"Families do that, implicate you in them....Blood tells the story, it seems to say, of which you are a part, and like tragedy can't be escaped....Tragedy can't be a complete shock; it must build and build to a foreseeable end, which can't ever be avoided. I can't see any of it in the family photographs. But a family resemblance shares that attribute—it can't be avoided. You can't escape what it says about you."