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The biggest tragedy of my life is that I’d not read Dylan Thomas sooner.

What a change from Ron Rash. Dense. Science-y, if that even counts as a descriptor. Still poetic, though. Somehow. Typical Richard Powers. Except that it’s hard, because this one isn’t about trees. Stars, instead. Outer-space. Still, it’s a story about curiosity. Curiosity and how strange it is to be a person. Just like every story.

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and how to let it come in. We think we don’t deserve love. We think, if we let it in, we’ll become too weak. But, a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, ‘Love is the only rational act.’”

oof.

oof