Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

In Memoriam

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Just as I was finishing this book today, my closest friend, David, succumbed to the virus at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. The two events - completing the book and David’s death - reinforced the simple reality that there is no cure for the human condition. We are bound together by the facts of suffering and death, something we may only be aware of during a crisis such as the one we are now experiencing collectively. And isn’t this condition, as Galeano writes, paradoxical in the extreme? As we are compelled to distance ourselves from one another, we become closer. Perhaps, therefore, his hope can infect us all: “the despairing shall be paired and the lost shall be found, for they are the ones who despaired and lost their way from so much lonely seeking.” David had devoted his entire life to this same hope.
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