On the Calculation of Volume, Book I

by Solvej Balle

And there may be healing in sentences.

Our love has always been microscopic. It is something in the cells, some molecules, some compounds outside our control, which collide in the air around us, sound waves that form unique harmonies when we speak, it happens at the atomic level or even that of smaller particles.

Fresh. Never seen love described this way.

How do they live in the same houses, though, those couples who have been halved?

I loved this concept of partners being halved— cleaved from something that had been at one point innate to their being. Felt new, at least to me.