Not all coincidence has to be loaded with meaning. Sometimes, things simply recur because that's how it is in life, that's how the mood gets in. It's good to subtly overdo it too, as Nabokov does, as Sebald does. It's a good way to intensify that region of localized weather that we call a novel.

I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.

But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I read aloud with myself as the audience, and gave voice to another's words.

Things don't go away just because you choose to forget them.

A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.

The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.