Blind to what we might otherwise have been / August 13, 2024 by Nathan Jones View fullsize View fullsize “Whatever fate sends us quickly becomes us and we grow blind to what we might otherwise have been. And how else should it be? If we could see ourselves as capable of being different, then how resentful, or else in the opposite case how fearful that would leave us!” — William T. Vollman in Europe Central (2005)