On the Calculation of Volume, Book I

by Solvej Balle

but also because such conversations seem to increase the distance between us.

little words and sounds meant—I suppose—to keep the line between us open, but which, instead, make all too clear how far apart we are.

It seems so odd to me now, how one can be so unsettled by the improbable. When we know that our entire existence is founded on freak occurrences and improbable coincidences.

There is room enough in here for my mood to shift.