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One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls!Reif Larsen
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This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. A real war was never as true as a fictive one.Reif Larsen
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Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.Reif Larsen
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A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.Reif Larsen
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Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions.Reif Larsen
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Instead of falling to the ground like a heavy doll, as Kermin had seen the prisoners do at the Chetnik executions, his mother shrank into herself, a reverse blossoming, coming to rest in a sitting position, like a ruminative BuddhaReif Larsen
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I'm a practicing Zen Buddhist and I'm influenced by my readings in that tradition, such as the notion that everyone is born a perfect being and we spend most of our lives with a clouded vision trying to realize our perfection, " he says. At critical moments in the book, T.S. registers his inkling of this realization. When he makes his maps, it feels like taking down dictation from the universe.Reif Larsen
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A novel is a tricky thing to map.Reif Larsen