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The cover art shows a bird's-eye view of sea surf on a rugged, completely black island, within which a kind of window shows the view of a room with antique furniture and decorated ceilings. A digital button in the lower left shows the pictogram of a blurry watch face, where a magnifying glass enlarges the hour hand.

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I enter the corridor—and how­ever fleet­ing this step may seem, I try to per­ceive it intensely with all my senses. “Ars longa,” they say, “vita bre­vis.” Yet, it’s like the frac­tal coast­line: How long is Ice­land’s shore? The water laps against head­lands, rocks, and indi­vid­ual stones. The closer you look, the longer the shore­line becomes.

One can get lost in the blur of the infi­nite at the mol­e­c­u­lar or atomic level, and the step into the cor­ri­dor could seem­ingly last for­ever. That’s not what mat­ters to me. What mat­ters to me is an aware­ness of details and nuances, with­out los­ing sight of the big­ger pic­ture. Sooner or later, this evolves into the art of liv­ing.

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