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Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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.
Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
On another night of searching, a centuries-old academic journal yielded a reference to a Gaspery J. Roberts. The journal had been devoted to prison reform. The hit sent Olive down a rabbit hole, at the end of which she found prison records from Earth: Gaspery J. Roberts had been sentenced to fifty years for a double homicide in Ohio in the late twe
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