Clark

Question 1

Objects he’d collected over the years

Answer 1

Objects he’d collected over the years… iPhones… radio… electric toaster… taken-for-granted miracles that had persisted all around them

Question 2

Because he had been sleepwalking

Answer 2

Because he had been sleepwalking… when had he last found real joy in his work? When was the last time he’d been truly moved by anything?

Question 3

I’ve just realised

Answer 3

I’ve just realised that I’m as minimally present in this world as you are, I had no right to judge

Question 4

Robert was a curator…

Answer 4

Robert was a curator… if [he] were here, he’d probably fill the shelves with artifacts and start an impromptu museum

Question 5

Clark had been fond of

Answer 5

Clark had been fond of beautiful objects

Question 6

He found he was a man who repented almost everything,

Answer 6

He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light… the main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one…the sheer volume of regret