The common discourse is feeling and immediate transmission, a familiar act, perfect: you fill a glass with water, you drink or offer, the bus passes by, stops, you get on.

So simply, perfectly, you remember stories, incidents, big, small, and tiny, with common words throughout a life, many lives, entire eras come alive, find a place next to ours for a short while, sometimes forever.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]