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Epigraph: ‘Our children point out beauty to us, and we don’t have the heart to tell them that it’s like meteors; these things have no future, we’re witnessing a trajectory already burned-out.’
'There is an elusive element to selecting and editing fiction. We are all creatures of taste; it follows, therefore, that we have particular tastes in our reading too.'