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Matthew knew that phrenology was nonsense, and yet, years later, he found himself making judgments similar to those made by his father; slippery people looked slippery; they really did. And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudiced and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right! ↗
Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien ↗
Compruebo también, a través de nuestras conversaciones, que estamos libres de fetichismos, de supersticiones, de falsos sentimentalismos, y que, para bien y para mal, vemos la muerte no como una culminación y un tránsito hacia otro lugar, sino de esa forma a la vez descarnada y sin consuelo a la que la ha reducido la historia moderna: un hecho simple, natural, tan aleatorio como la vida misma. Lo único que podemos hacer ahora para sacarla de su condición de acto animal es recurrir a un ritual de despedida suficientemente hermoso que tenga que ver con el mismo Daniel y con aquello en lo que nosotros creemos. Y a eso nos disponemos. ↗
