Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
From Jane Howard
She was a patron saint of the peripheral.
Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.
New links must be forged as old ones rust.
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