“Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness ofdisinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent andstill because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.”

Susanna Kaysen

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