‘No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of a Continent, a part of the main.’                  - John Donne: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (Meditation XVII)

‘It is dusk that the most interesting things occur, for that is when simple differences fade away. I could live in the everlasting dusk.’ - Olga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead