Quoting George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, 2021, Random House, Ch. We Begin, p. 6

ask the big questions: How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it? How can we feel any peace when some people have everything and others have nothing? How are we supposed to live with joy in a world that seems to want us to love other people but then roughly separates us from them in the end, no matter what?

— George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, 2021, Random House, Ch. We Begin, p. 6

11:54am on November 28, 2024 from Vancouver, Canada.


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