I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other.
Jeanette Winterson, British novelist, Gut symmetries, Granta Books, 1997, p. 25. (tnx withnailrules)

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