If enough people repeat the stories for long enough, Jason will become something that cannot die, but he also will have been erased, because the actions are too large and impersonal. The stories will reveal nothing about the real man who lived.

David Vann
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  1. Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.

  2. History...to stand in a place and know that this where you come from for a dozen generations or maybe a hundred generations or maybe more. To know there was a great city two thousand years ago in this place, and that your ancestors helped build...

  3. As if each of us might somehow have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.

  4. What would the world be like if men never ruled again?

  5. A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?

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