Peter Wessel Zapffe wrote – in his doctoral thesis with the classic name On the Tragic – on the importance of not taking short cuts, but instead using one’s time to struggle towards a goal. Receiving too much technical help

Back at home, returned to civilization, daily life takes over with surprising speed. Pleasures become more complicated, often less intense and more to be expected. Over the course of a few days, grand sensations – such as feeling full or warm, sleeping well, or seeing another human being – are taken for granted.

theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/25/three-quarters-of-uk-children-spend-less-time-outdoors-than-prison-inmates-survey.

Professor Rory Wilson of Swansea University has researched the degree to which illness, hormones, nutrition and emotions affect the movements of both humans and cockroaches.

her sorrow remained lodged in her body for the next fifty-six years.

harmony,’

Maria was eager to get home to see her two other children and husband for the first time, but she didn’t know how to get back. She had heard that there was a white sign in the ditch of the road near her shamba, the patch of earth where her family lived, but the place did not have an address.

a child’s foot must nonetheless relinquish its freedom and come to terms with a life spent in darkness, encompassed by plastic, rubber or leather, as it is tramped on the way into or out of stores and office buildings:

According to Variety, the local magazine, ‘she loved dancing and the color purple’.