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The morning routine you keep doing for a week after the job has changed. The candle a friend lights for somebody who has stopped checking. Loyalty to an absent thing keeps the thing alive in something less than fact, but more than nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA field of sunflowers in southern Europe in midsummer, the heads down for the night, every one of them aimed at the same patch of horizon. Above them, the centre of our galaxy in pretty good focus on a dry August sky. The oak at the edge of the field has the patience of an oak. 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The end of a meeting is when the actual decision is made, in the corridor, by two people on either side of a coffee machine. The end of a book is when the silence gets to do its work. Endings are doors. We just keep calling them endings out of habit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA single dune in the high desert at three in the morning, lit only by the centre of the galaxy. The sand is cool and the air is dry and the stars do not blink. The dune is the last solid thing for a while. 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Your father's car on long drives, that became a smaller version of the house with seating arrangements and unspoken laws. The cousin's bedroom you visited in summer, that turned out to be a country. A backyard at midnight that decided what kind of conversation you were about to have. Buildings are not the only buildings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA camp of round white tents on a high plain in central Asia, mountains on the horizon, a fire that has done its work for the night. Above the tents, the spine of our galaxy at full strength. People have slept under it here for a few thousand years. 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