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

So simply, perfectly, you remember stories, incidents, big, small, and minute, with common words a lifetime, many lives, entire eras come alive, they find a place near ours for a brief period, sometimes forever.

[Excerpt from the back cover text of the edition]