Quoting George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, 2021, Random House, Ch. We Begin, p. 4

The resistance in the stories is quiet, at a slant, and comes from perhaps the most radical idea of all: that every human being is worthy of attention and that the origins of every good and evil capability of the universe may be found by observing a single, even very humble, person and the turnings of his or her mind.

— George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, 2021, Random House, Ch. We Begin, p. 4

11:26am on November 28, 2024 from Vancouver, Canada.


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