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Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. this is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart.
-Salman Rushdie
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Our Lives Disconnect And Reconnect, We Move

Salman Rushdie
Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. this is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart.
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