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Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
A film star's surgical gaze in the mirror
A make-up assistant held up a mirror while Chunkey combed and fretted at his hair. The intensity of the gaze that he focused on the mirror was as steadfast as a surgeon’s might be in the midst of a complex and critical procedure.
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Conceptual thinking cannot grasp it
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time—a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution, where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment only to…