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• ‟ Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.

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• ‟ Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.

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• ‟ Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.

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• ‟ Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.

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• ‟ At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.

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