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13 A ReCkoning Minds break almost in the same way a heart does. It just takes longer. Even when a heart stops expecting, stops waiting, for sleep or peace or the contrite word, the mind does not. It stays alert, on the job. It takes the photographs, puts forth the reasonable explanation: Soon,the mind says,when he has rested,when it is cooler,when it is morning… The heart has given up by this time, has broken, is shattered. But the mind turns away from its own distraction. It refuses to notice the danger: the exposed root, the shards of glass, the blown fuse. when, at last, these things are irrefutable, it breaks. Just like a heart— almost exactly like a heart. ...

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