May 2012
To Live at All Is Miracle Enough by Richard...
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Excerpt from Chapter I, “The Anaesthetic of Familiarity,” of his 1998 book Unweaving the Rainbow To live at all is miracle enough. — Mervyn Peake, The Glassblower (1950) We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact...