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"It could be," says Olga. "It's just an idea, Mateo. I think it would be better if, instead of being proud of who they are, people carried their abilities like something they'd discovered inside them, if they carried them with a sense of astonishment."

"I like to wait for the toast to pop up without doing it myself," Olga says. "It always makes me think of a boat coming into the port. It's like waiting for sugar to dissolve, those moments when time creates what you see."

even the propitious ability to delay gratification

You may have wondered why there are still libraries when you exist. Some students still lack a room, a table, access to the internet. Many people go there to take out and return books. What does everyone else want in a library they don't need? Simultaneity. The murmur of pages, keyboards, lungs, an…

They looked up the word "anodyne" to confirm that it originally meant free from or alleviating pain. Only later did i come to mean insubstantial, uninteresting, or unimportant.