it became clear to me that, more than anything else in life, I wanted to do what this woman, blind and yet so far-sighted, was doing right then: I wanted to bring together the things that had fallen apart. Assemble other people’s memories, which only reveal their connections when a whole is created from a host of individual parts. All of us, whether we know it or not, perform our own dance within this overall picture, following a mysterious choreography.
