“We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.”
“In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”
“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”
“The shortest distance between two points is always under construction. ”
“The shortest distance between two points is the line from me to you.”