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Children, hope and the ability to birth yourself.

“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it.

We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's what

enabled Western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral or a Renaissance

piazza. The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's

unintentional. It arose independent of human des

Wherever you go, there you are.

Rooney feels that people can interpret her work as a reflection on “how hard it is to say what we mean”, but that wasn’t her intention. She wants to raise the thought: how hard it is to mean anything, and to know what you yourself actually mean.

“I want to write about how language doesn’t seem to be a good way of conveying meaning, and how sometime