At the end of my suffering there was a door.
-- Louise Gluck

I am so busy. I am practicing
my new hobby of watching me
become someone else. There is
so much violence in reconstruction.
Every minute is grisly, but I have
to participate. I am building
what I cannot break.

— Jennifer Willoughby, from "The Sun is Still a Part of Me" in Beautiful Zero

To cope with the uniformity that surrounds us, our only option is to constantly renovate our own interior world, like a child who constructs the same house over and over again…