Status Updates From Brazil That Never Was

‘In the interim I had become a neurologist—If I made mistakes—I could ruin lives. But, in spite of these disturbing deductive powers, I continued to feel—something had gone missing. For some time I had not wanted to be face-to-face with my own life, but everywhere I kept finding it—I had started to sense that I'd need to wander ethereal landscapes, collapse the leap between faith and fact if I were ever to unravel—’