Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names? (Julian Barnes)

Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?

Julian Barnes

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