How to Be Both

by Ali Smith

The ring you saw in the water’ll never stop travelling till the edge of the world and then when it reaches the edge it’ll go beyond that too. Nothing can stop it.

the boy is on a small low wall whose bricks are crying out for love : the knowing of this is the knowledge of my father turning over in his grave in his natural impatience and knocking on the lid of the box I put him in to have someone let him up and out of the ground to remake such a wall

and how to tell a story, but tell it more than one way at once, and tell another underneath it up-rising through the skin of it) –

It means, he says, you who are more than one thing. You who exceed expectations.

I’m thinking this ties into the title, How to Be Both…?