Living with someone probably means losing part of your own identity. Living with someone contaminates (36) - Margo Glantz

Is the pleasure of remembering somehow debilitating? Maybe memory gets weakened by being handled and stretched so much. Memories return so often and we stay hooked onto some event or other... (37)

Zoom and other outlets deform our images, making us lose our actual bodies, and with the possibility of contacting each other this way—we become holograms, or ghosts like Justine from Bioy Casares’s great novel, The Invention of Morel.

All of us, no matter whether noble or not, have our own family trees. (Prologue)