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“I was used to being an outsider.

There’s a trick to it. To be an outsider means to be connected to the inside somehow. It’s a dialectic, or taijitu—the symbol beloved by kung-fu weirdoes and van art aficionados, with the white spot in the black fish, and vice versa. An outsider is more than a stranger, less than a friend. We cannot help but be inside everywhere. And I was headed in deeper than I’d ever been.”