Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

by Olga Tokarczuk

Long years of unhappiness cause a Person worse degradation than a fatal illness.

the thing that leaves the body sucks a piece of the world after it, and no matter how good or bad it was, how guilty or blameless, it leaves behind a great big void.

It’s hard work talking to some people, most often males.

With age, many men come down with testosterone autism, the symptoms of which are a gradual decline in social intelligence and capacity for interpersonal communication, as well as a reduced ability to formulate thoughts.