… life is always lived on the edge, along the
elusive border between order and chaos. What we
call normality is a narrow bandwidth – a fraction
of a degree more or less, and everything spins
out of control. Along this margin reason and
madness are simultaneously joined and separated
by a membrane so thin and porous that one inevitably bleeds into the other.”
Mark Taylor, Field Notes from Elsewhere:
Reflections on Dying and Living, Columbia Press, 2009, p 5
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