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"Imagine yourself in pieces.
Imagine all the people who have known you for only a year or a month or a single encounter, imagine those people in a room together trying to assemble a portrait of you, the way an archaeologist puts together the fragments of a ruined facade, or the bones of a caveman . Do you remember the fable of the seven blind men and the elephant? It's not that easy, after all, to know what you're made up of."
Dan Chaon, AWAIT YOUR REPLY
Imagine all the people who have known you for only a year or a month or a single encounter, imagine those people in a room together trying to assemble a portrait of you, the way an archaeologist puts together the fragments of a ruined facade, or the bones of a caveman . Do you remember the fable of the seven blind men and the elephant? It's not that easy, after all, to know what you're made up of."
Dan Chaon, AWAIT YOUR REPLY