On the top of our fiction bookshelf is an alabaster vase.Its rim is broken.Inside it is a single dried flower, and beside it a faux peach, under a large bell jar.The vase is Egyptian and three thousand years old.I broke its rim a few years ago.Each time I reach for a novel I am reminded of the power of carelessness to undo eons of completeness.
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