“I survive at the edge of friends circles.”

“I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...”

“At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.”

“There is a saying among the peoples of the Northwest Coast: “The world is as sharp as the edge of a knife,” and Robert Davidson, the man responsible for carving Masset’s first post-missionary pole, imagines this edge as a circle. “If you live on the edge of the circle,” he explained in a documentary film, “that is the present moment. What’s inside is knowledge, experience: the past. What’s outside has yet to be experienced. The knife’s edge is so fine that you can live either in the past or in the future. The real trick,” says Davidson, “is to live on the edge.”

“Yellow circles are friendly. Especially smiley faces.”

“Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.”