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One Mississippi becomes a study of how identity, in a family, is a group project – we often edit our loved ones into the people we want them to be.

– “Have You Heard the One About the Grieving Daughter”, James Poniewozik, New York Times, 8 September 2016

I did the calculations, they were wrong. They were wrong because life cannot be calculated. That’s the big mistake our civilisation made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation – it is part of the equation.

– Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us.

– Robert Coover