Sublime

“You think they’ll be all right?” Sophie asked. “After everything that’s happened to them?” “I think they will. Kids are resilient.” “They’re not, Dad. Kids aren’t resilient. That’s something adults like to say to make themselves feel better. To pretend that kids don’t feel as deeply as adults do. But kids are everything that happens to them.

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According to the doctor, it had been the first delivery during which he had more concerns for the expectant father than the mother and infant.

If the weight of mortality does not grow lighter, does it at least get more familiar?

Paul spent all of 1915 and the beginning of the following year as a patient in one Parisian military hospital after another: first in Gentilly, with bronchitis, then in the Broca hospital with cerebral anemia and “chronic” appendicitis, and finally at the clinic in Cochin with debilitating migraines. Paradoxically, this miserable turn of events