Anna B

ideological thinking insists upon a ‘truer reality’, that is concealed behind the world of perceptible things.

insignificant. I knew, in that moment, and perhaps for the first time, that I would one day die, that at some point there would be nothing left of me, my mittens, my breathing, my curls, my hat. I felt that conviction for the first time. My death felt like a person standing there next to me.

We are building something immense together that, though invisible and immaterial, is a structure, one we reside within—or, rather, many overlapping structures.