A Brief Allusion

They need to stop bringing him up in interviews. They really do.

or, a tale of old contacts and a sudden wish to reconnect.

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lachesism: n. the desire to be struck by disaster - to survive a plane crash, to lose everything in a fire, to plunge over a waterfall - which would put a kink in the smooth arc of your life, and forge it into something hardened and flexible and sharp, not just a stiff prefabricated beam that barely covers the gap between one end of your life and the other.

(originally posted on ao3)