They weren't trying to be perfect and falling imperceptibly short.
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Almost imperceptibly the music swells and continues falling in pitch.
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Gemma touched her arm, almost imperceptibly, and continued to play.
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The risk of climate calamities rises imperceptibly quarter to quarter.
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Another seimei paused imperceptibly, and he recognized her from Rafael's household.
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Or almost as still, since their faces do move, nearly imperceptibly.
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Simultaneously, it sinks into the rock at an imperceptibly slow rate.
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Runoff escaped through drains in Ms. Gabe's almost imperceptibly sloping floors.
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Researchers can, for instance, transform ballot images so that votes move imperceptibly.
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These vibrate imperceptibly and create plumes of cold water vapor when powered.
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He nods almost imperceptibly and everyone joins in, drowning out the Germans.
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Almost imperceptibly, however, he started easing into the rhythm of our days.
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The city blends almost imperceptibly into the adjacent Brazilian municipality of Ponta Porã.
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Then, the treadmills would negate that motion, imperceptibly moving you back into place.
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The latter places an imperceptibly small amount of downward pressure on radiologists' wages.
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Imperceptibly at first, and then all at once, they dilute the overall product.
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Raz challenged me on occasion in a way that segued imperceptibly into harassment.
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Imperceptibly the sky darkened, and instead of growing hotter, the air grew cool.
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Darkness will creep up the lower left portion of the moon, almost imperceptibly.
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From this enveloping texture, voices and instruments emerge, sometimes assertively and sometimes almost imperceptibly.
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The jargon accreted gradually and imperceptibly over decades, and is readily comprehensible to practitioners.
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The toxic relationship between the Jongas and the Edwardses reveals itself slowly, almost imperceptibly.
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And as the war rages on outside, he starts, almost imperceptibly, to grow up.
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Sometimes it gets light so slowly and imperceptibly that you don't even see it happening.
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"Do you know where I can find … " I paused imperceptibly to hear the whole question.
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This has, in turn, caused issues for them that are weakening their community almost imperceptibly.
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But by the act of trying to live a decent life, we might slow it imperceptibly.
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Slowly, perhaps imperceptibly, hymn-by-hymn and sermon-by-sermon, one theological step at a time.
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Mountains receded to desert, acacia to scrub, as we slid imperceptibly downhill toward the Red Sea.
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Both the visuals and the story get better — almost imperceptibly — with every step the boys take.
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Too imperceptibly, certainly, for a nation consistently drawn to the spectacular — to what it can see.
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What's left is a slight downward slope that stretches for miles and then rises again, almost imperceptibly.
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Sometimes imperceptibly subtle, our parties are constantly shifting — not just occasionally dramatically — like the earth's tectonic plates.
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Gradually, perhaps imperceptibly, automated systems will function so much more efficiently that humans will become mere bystanders.
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At first they both stayed sober but then slowly, imperceptibly, Ryan slipped away, taking Brittany with him.
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He described his anxiety and drinking as conditions that grew almost imperceptibly, finally overtaking him in 2128.
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The turbocharged six-cylinder has plenty of power, while the eight-speed transmissions swaps gears quickly and imperceptibly.
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Did we, imperceptibly, realize the spiraling downfall we were in and vote against ourselves to make it stop?
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The C.I.A. prison in Afghanistan, known as the Salt Pit, was perpetually dark, so the days passed imperceptibly.
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These structures rotate slowly, almost imperceptibly, not unlike the shifting desires and balances of power among the characters.
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Time slips away in the film almost imperceptibly, and the narrative arc doesn't yield easily to the viewer.
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Every day you make thousands of decisions, from the imperceptibly quotidian to those that will change your life forever.
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Similarly, readers just click on the links that they want to, and the bidding and redirecting should happen imperceptibly.
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The result is an image that imperceptibly teeters between multiple angles, collapsing or bending over backwards into convex arcs.
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But suburbs outside the top 20 were almost as Republican as the rural areas into which they imperceptibly fade.
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We reach out for human contact, but instead what we are all cycling imperceptibly closer to is the void.
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At the end, we catch a brief snippet of what may be Blunt rapping imperceptibly beneath the static-y beat.
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What Ida envisioned, she told Roy, was a series of soft columns swelling out of the plaza, but almost imperceptibly.
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His radiant falsetto imperceptibly dims into catacombs of vocal fry, or sails out and wavers as pristinely as a chime.
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It has raised questions about gender stereotypes, the subconscious, and the way we change imperceptibly to ourselves and perceptibly to others.
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It's around this point that "Atlantics" transforms itself, almost imperceptibly, into something entirely different from what it had seemed to be.
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As with all heydays, we had no clue that's what it was, and how easily and imperceptibly it would fade away.
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And it explains how the bow of a violin, sticking and slipping almost imperceptibly as it crosses the string, creates sound.
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While the political system is basically the same as in those early years, the society changed slowly, at times almost imperceptibly.
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While my income went up, almost imperceptibly my expenses went up too, to handle my lack of time and energy.5.
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Many worried about the idea of bureaucrats being given free rein to shape behaviour by imperceptibly tweaking government communications and environmental cues.
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But what begins as a consciously old-fashioned adventure tale subtly, almost imperceptibly, morphs into something far richer, more mysterious and cosmic.
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His client, he added, had an "undertaker's smile" in the photograph that French passport officials rejected, with his lips almost imperceptibly upturned.
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It illustrates the equilibrium of Psychopomp as a whole, which tilts almost imperceptibly between being light as a feather and heavy as night.
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She'd never felt this way about Rob, even when they first met, when they were nigh-imperceptibly younger and thinner and more optimistic.
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But as the story unfolds, a mystery seems to emerge almost imperceptibly from the family's ordinary interactions, and it becomes something else altogether.
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That change does not happen at any one instant, but slowly over time, so that, almost imperceptibly, a qualitatively different being is created.
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Good mash ups make you go from nodding your head to one song into nodding your head to a new song almost imperceptibly.
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But like sand dunes imperceptibly shifting with the wind, the determinants of how major powers approach Iran have evolved considerably over four decades.
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Now, the exhibit sends instructions to the beavers to speed up and slow down, almost imperceptibly, to stay synchronized, and they derail less often.
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But as the story unfolds, a mystery seems to emerge almost imperceptibly from the family's ordinary interactions, and it eventually becomes something else altogether.
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If a cloudy day reduces the amount of power it collected then it will imperceptibly dim the lights and television to keep them running.
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It most often happens imperceptibly - a tenth of a degree increase in temperature, a few less inches of rain, a slowly melting ice sheet.
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Joined by the vocalist Rully Shabara and the instrumentalist Wukir Suryadi, the dancers slowly, almost imperceptibly, jerk and twist while rising to their feet.
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It will happen slowly, almost imperceptibly, for years, obscured by the prosperity of the segment of the population that can consistently avoid mass transit.
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The forest's worth of woodwork is washed in luminous hand-blended shades of cream and off-white with some walls tinged, almost imperceptibly, green.
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That day, nearly hypnotized by the sea, the islands, the white sails, the sun that moved imperceptibly in the sky, I asked myself this question.
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The neighborhood merges imperceptibly with Downtown Brooklyn and has access to no fewer than 10 subway lines, as well as the Long Island Rail Road.
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The refrain is picked up by other residents, the spoken words sliding imperceptibly into song as Adam Cork's score becomes a libretto of sidewalk anxiety.
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The photographs, shifting imperceptibly in background, costume and the real-time register of Mr. Ye's advancing age, are a virtuosic portrait of a man's life.
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They published the book as "If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer" — putting the word "if" in almost imperceptibly tiny letters on the cover.
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Almost imperceptibly, Martin has included a very thin border of pure white underneath each of the darker bands, with the exception of the lowest rung.
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The concertmaster — here, Sheryl Staples (in the absence of Frank Huang) — emerges from silence almost imperceptibly and in all innocence with a fetching little tune.
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Various government programs, like tax breaks (from mortgage-interest deductions to claimed depreciations in commercial ventures), are designed to support the already privileged indirectly and imperceptibly.
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Essentially, it made little moments of my life imperceptibly easier, which is really all I think we should hope to expect of our gadgets as they mature.
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I managed over 30 miles of city driving, with the AC blasting, before the battery gauge dropped to zero and the gas engine kicked in, almost imperceptibly.
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Gradually, almost imperceptibly, the arrangement for full orchestra builds to a lush Romantic rhapsody as the piece, essentially a six-part fugue, all but bursts its bounds.
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" Change happens so imperceptibly that only big events like the collapse of the Berlin Wall or 9/11 allow us to establish a "before" and an "after.
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The next time, I saw her lean forward, imperceptibly at first, and then more visibly, and adjust her weight back on the seat as the slope decreased.
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But as the story unfolds, a mystery seems to emerge almost imperceptibly from the family's everyday interactions, and the movie eventually becomes something unexpected, surprising, and haunting.
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The aggregators can often communicate directly with their appliances and HVAC systems, subtly and imperceptibly ramping power use up and down in response to real-time grid conditions.
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Berlinger was not involved in Mr. McLaren's investigation, and the bottle's design enhancements were not informed by the mechanics of how he and others imperceptibly cracked into them.
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It feels like things will really change, that there will be a national reckoning; but slowly, almost imperceptibly, the news cycle moves on, and we start all over again.
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The issue is the long-term symptom of "bendgate," a design flaw that allows the iPhone 6 Plus (and sometimes the iPhone 903) to flex imperceptibly during normal use.
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Broad City existed in a microcosm of New York and millennial culture, where everything is hookups and hijinks, but where the needle of adulthood moves imperceptibly but inevitably forward.
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Nothing of the Southern terroir escapes the exhibit's compass, a kudzu maze where war, slavery, racism, music, food, religion, time, place, and speech bend and turn imperceptibly into one another.
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As it was repeated, we would become conscious that it had changed, that in the process of being repeated it had changed, quietly, had expanded from quiet to quietly, imperceptibly.
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The mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill generally fared better and was especially effective at the end of "Der Abschied," as the word "ewig" ("eternally") trailed off, imperceptibly merging with the instruments.
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Like a garment that can be worn with the lining on the outside, "Phantom Thread" reverses itself, almost imperceptibly flipping from Reynolds's point of view to Alma's and back again.
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From Third World Liberation movements and interracial intimacies to lived and aestheticized experiences of exile and diaspora, the exhibition showcases what remnants and resonances — improbably, imperceptibly, spectrally, or spectacularly — gets through.
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At the match in The Hague, she wore a white T-shirt reading "Let Iranian Women Enter Their Stadiums" and bounced almost imperceptibly to the beat as she held her banner.
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Abstract topographical maps and almost-imperceptibly manipulated videos comprise her two series about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: "Slick Images" and "Nature Represents Itself" (2018).
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That slowly rotating stage, which literally and imperceptibly kept altering the audience's viewpoint, helped, as did the stealthy and increasingly sinister performance by Pablo Schreiber, as a pair of identical twins.
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Each stride covered nine feet, his upper body moving up and down almost imperceptibly, his feet striking the track and rising so rapidly that his heels did not touch the ground.
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The percentage of the population with access to clean cooking grew almost imperceptibly from 2010 to 2016, according to research conducted in part by the United Nations and World Health Organization.
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I felt as if a magnet were pulling me along the main path and then right, toward Blake's plain, timeworn gravestone, cracked and discolored in places, almost imperceptibly listing to the left.
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But then there is a moment — so subtle you could easily miss it — when Mearns lays her head on Ramasar's chest, and almost imperceptibly, he flinches before wrapping his arms around her.
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"It's around this point that 'Atlantics' transforms itself, almost imperceptibly, into something entirely different from what it had seemed to be," A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times.
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Croker may have died an obscure cult figure, but the legacy of Coast to Coast, and his other Adult Swim projects carry on, sometimes imperceptibly, in this galaxy and somewhere into the next.
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You can even set it to grind less and less coffee over time, imperceptibly reducing your caffeine intake until you're back to more tolerable levels of dependence, or breaking the coffee habit entirely.
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That's why the headlights look like a falcon's talons and why the golden honey paint-job splinters out into small polygons as it morphs imperceptibly from the metal exterior to the darkened windows.
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The idea that such a significant change could happen so gradually and imperceptibly hit me like a whirlwind: big, sweeping changes don't need to happen overnight, you might not even notice them happening.
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Slowly, and almost imperceptibly, Wernquist moved his virtual camera Kubrick-style toward a distant alien moon, then placed it in orbit to reveal surface details like land, water and an intelligent species' structures.
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The people in them keep secrets, imperceptibly change, create facades, hide motives and, as she illustrated so brilliantly in "Faithful Place," even fool their own families about matters of life or death for decades.
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The more time I spent looking back at the past from here in its distant future, the more that time itself began to feel like a slow-moving natural disaster, imperceptibly shaking everything apart.
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Noise doesn't kill us like a blow to the head but grinds us down the way a poor diet or sedentary lifestyle does: gradually, imperceptibly, almost abstractly, in a way that doesn't feel urgent.
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It evokes, beautifully, the sky's subtle changes at first light: how the colors phase in mildly, almost imperceptibly, the way a piece of white paper might blush if you rubbed it with a flower.
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That high-profile nomination will mark only the beginning of the Trump administration's effort to gain control of a federal judiciary that has gradually, almost imperceptibly slipped into Democratic hands during the Obama years.
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Gravity may have taken its toll as well, with a cat's cradle of stress cracks forming within the concrete as the chute tried to slither imperceptibly down the steep slope with its 700-ft drop.
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One of the most ironic aspects of investing is that the greatest gains lie ahead at times when things are bad, but not quite as bad as everyone suspects, and slowly, almost imperceptibly getting better.
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The other was "City of Gold," a Canadian short from 1957: the camera moved across archival photographs of the Klondike gold rush of the eighteen-nineties, and transitioned, almost imperceptibly, to near-motionless contemporary footage.
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My mother's death was for me the closing of a door that had moved almost imperceptibly but inevitably for thirteen years, ever since she was struck down by an illness from which she never recovered.
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Philippe Jabre, who launched his hotly anticipated eponymous fund, Jabre Capital, in 2007, said that computerised models had "imperceptibly replaced" traditional actors in his final letter to clients as he closed some funds last December.
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The 20 pages tick off the ephemera of late-Soviet life — preparations for May Day, profiles of successful farm managers — while just at eye level a projection of ominously dark storm clouds almost imperceptibly drift past.
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Mark's sister Candace is screwed over more imperceptibly: She finds herself caring for their aging parents with minimal help from Mark and their other brother, who managed to subtly shift the weight of responsibility onto her.
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Thanks to a matte finish and a light sensor that imperceptibly dims and lightens the screen to match its surroundings, it all somehow looks intimate and lovely, and not—as one might fear—cheesy and horrible.
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David does not know there is banter going on, but look at that folder: He definitely, definitely organized this whole thing, and that keeps him separate from the rest of the boys—slightly, imperceptibly, but still separate.
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But the book's best chapters are vehicles for his genuine understanding of more liberal co-religionists, and for his ability to parrot their most compelling arguments, skewing them nearly imperceptibly on the way to chopping them down.
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Still you can very literally get injured, and physical therapists do warn that it's important to be especially careful during those months of lifting, dressing, diapering, carrying and car-seating your ever-imperceptibly heavier bundle of joy.
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It takes time and neglect; it grows weaker by the day, but imperceptibly, so that one day we are living in a digital world controlled by giants and we come to regard the whole thing as normal.
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One section of the space, somewhat imperceptibly laid out, was set up for the latest video he was working on, with the videographer Bruce Hamilton, in which Nauman would walk in a straight line in the studio.
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When a federal official "receives something of value from a foreign power", he or she "can be imperceptibly induced to compromise what the constitution insists be his exclusive loyalty: the best interest of the United States of America".
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"Many of [Mutant's] 20 tracks flow together almost imperceptibly, one song springing out of the tail end of another like taffy being pulled," wrote Philip Sherburne in Pitchfork, and that does justice to Arca's peculiar style of motion.
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Yet almost imperceptibly, she turns what feels like her own intensely private space into a shared one, as if opening the door to her home, or whatever it is that she's creating and dismantling at the same time.
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Choking up on the knife with one hand and palming the oyster in the other, he snugged the tip of the blade into the oyster hinge, then raised them together to his chest, and popped it open, almost imperceptibly.
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Why it matters: The AI revolution will arrive almost imperceptibly, but still faster than prior big technological shifts because of intense global competition and the breadth of its reach, according to a new study by the McKinsey Global Institute.
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And visitors will feel they've entered a microscopic biological world thanks to a balloon artwork inspired by organic forms that will be constructed onsite, to deflate almost imperceptibly throughout the summer in a process that gestures toward biological decay.
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You, pretty Bull, are a lot more resilient than a houseplant, but you grow like one — gently, imperceptibly stretching deeper into the soil of friends, family, and familiar places, toward the life-affirming sun of creativity and sensual pleasure.
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If nothing else, however, the presence of female bodies—albeit dangerously warmer female bodies—may get diners used to the sight of women behind the counter and even imperceptibly break the sushi glass ceiling in more traditional venues in Tokyo.
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The notes outside are visible; sparrows will line antennae like staves, the way springs were, but the roofs are cold and the great grey river where a liner glides, huge as a winter hill, moves imperceptibly like the accumulating years.
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As they headed to the parking lot, Fanny turned almost imperceptibly toward her mother, her arm extending just an inch, and Rosario slid her arm through her daughter's as they pushed the doors open under a roof of gray sky.
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The concert opened with the world premiere of Ethan Braun's "Mojave Music … from a certain perspective," a diaphanous haze of brittle string harmonics that drifts almost imperceptibly through smoky dissonances that coalesce, here and there, into a broody brass chorale.
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Then there's Cildo Miereles's 1970 Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Coca-Cola Project in which he silkscreened recipes for Molotov cocktails and slogans like "Yankee go home" camaflouged almost imperceptibly onto glass Coke bottles and recirculated them through the routes of insidious neocolonial consumption.
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But as I walked into Excavations & Certainties at John Molloy Gallery on the Upper East Side, a two-artist exhibition pairing Theresa Hackett's paintings with Shari Mendelson's sculptures, a similar sense of perfection imperceptibly set in, a seed of tranquility growing into an enveloping presence.
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The Axon 7 mini has the same all-metal body as the original Axon 7, a design that reminded us favorably of the HTC One M8, although it's a slightly lighter 153 grams (instead of 3333 grams) and imperceptibly thinner — 7.8mm compared to 7.9mm.
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The visual accompaniment for the performance transitioned, imperceptibly, from flickers that showed a woman in a room with her arms up against a window to shots of a girl playing in the ocean to scenes of nature and light wholesale— its own journey of liberation.
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The great accomplishment of The Lost City of Z is how its narrative pace slows, almost imperceptibly, as it glides smoothly from history-rooted concreteness — Fawcett, his associates, and the society are all real — and toward a more abstracted way of telling the story.
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That's in addition to the emerging consensus that genetics is much more complicated than we thought; instead of blaming a single gene for a disease, scientists are now realizing they're the result of many genes and are imperceptibly influenced by environmental and lifestyle factors.
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Her intensity accrues almost imperceptibly over the course of this 40-minute concerto; she builds urgency slowly, by sustaining her silvery tone — even at a whisper — and by pulling back to let voices from the orchestra, conducted by Jaap van Zweden, amplify her line.
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The sharpness of the pain that was so intense at the beginning —where sometimes you felt you would never feel anything but that pain — has with the passing of all these years, slowly and imperceptibly aged into a sadness that has found a home inside of me.
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Wong's real-life father was born and raised in San Francisco, and he does not speak with an accent, nor does Park's onscreen father, a tiny but radical detail — a gray-haired Asian-American who speaks unaccented English — that almost imperceptibly calls out decades of Hollywood depictions.
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On the eve of a contest she had hoped to win (and probably will not, according to polls) — one week removed from a caucus she had hoped to win (and certainly did not, according to Iowans) — Ms. Warren has arrived, almost imperceptibly, at a precarious stage.
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" The Hartford Women's Center is equipped to give women "limited medical ultrasounds," Velasquez told me, in order to "acquaint the mother with her child, and [ascertain] that it's a healthy pregnancy" —she paused, nearly imperceptibly, then corrected herself— "not a healthy pregnancy, but that it's in the right place.
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"O Peixe" nonetheless presents a rich, understated soundscape: the rhythmic splashing of water against boat, the gentle swooshing of the breeze, the percussive flapping of the fish against the wooden floor of the boat, the roughness of the fishermen's fingers against the fish's scales, and, almost imperceptibly, their breath.
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For those, cover your fingertip with a bit of soap or oil so the Dermaflage won't stick to the finger, and then fill in the hole, spreading the product beyond the outer edges of the gauge so that it blends imperceptibly with the rest of the lobe — that trick also helps it hold longer.
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They are glass bottles used to hold athletes' urine samples, and they are central to the account of a former Russian antidoping official who says that the host country executed an elaborate doping operation at the 2014 Sochi Olympics — imperceptibly switching out drug-tainted urine from the squat containers long thought to be tamper-proof.
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Every strange instance the team investigates, every new world they encounter in some way relates to the line that separates human from beast, and the reality that the choices we make — whether large or small — gently and imperceptibly accumulate over the days and months and years to shape us into the people we are.
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One night senior year I had gone over with a delivery and began falling asleep on the bed—it was cold out and cozy in there, and she had a big, expensive, non-university mattress and frame; she was OK with it at first but then the wind turned imperceptibly and she weighed anchor and said, Sorry, no.
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And the second meme is pictures of a Shiba dog with the caption "zoom in on the nose," and there, on the nose, glistening, almost imperceptibly, are Comic Sans instructions that send you around the photo on a wild goose chase that normally ends in an affirmation—"~remember u are beautiful~"—or whatever the opposite of that is—"~ya trash~"—and that is the other meme.
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What are they supposed to think of a system that was established 50 years ago as a temporary experiment, but keeps gaining new half-lives and further beneficiaries — moving "swiftly and imperceptibly," as Chris Caldwell once put it, "from a world in which affirmative action can't be ended because its beneficiaries are too weak to a world in which it can't be ended because its beneficiaries are too strong"?
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This is the country in which a belief in the literal interpretation of Genesis has slipped imperceptibly into a belief in the literal interpretation of Double Indemnity, the country of the teased hair and the Capris and the girls for whom all life's promise comes down to a waltz-length white wedding dress and the birth of a Kimberly or a Sherry or a Debbi and a Tijuana divorce and a return to hairdresser's school.
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Ali moves backward, into the ropes, and then his course changes almost imperceptibly, a bounce or lunge, he's in the other guy's space now, he's turned a retreat into an ambush while the whole town is sleeping, and then other guy's on the ground, the fight is over, they're chanting Ali's name, and the other guy's alone in the corner trying to make out the faces of the people in front of him.
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Anderson has a distracting tendency to quote even basic factual phrases — like "the State's federal public housing residents" — instead of simply stating or rewording them.) "One Person, No Vote" reads like a speedy sequel of sorts to her previous book, the elegant and illuminating best-seller "White Rage" (2016), which traced how periods of black progress have so often triggered a backlash that "wreaks havoc subtly, almost imperceptibly" through the legislatures and courts.
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Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye By ire'ne lara silva little warrioralmost imperceptibly scarredfrom so much healing how many regrown limbs how many repaired organseven precious brain tissue created anewteach me this little warriorhow you remain tender andinfinite soft and eternal in the face of strugglehow it is the healing has already begun even before the wound Naomi Shihab Nye is the 2019-21 Young People's Poet Laureate of the Poetry Foundation, Chicago.
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"You know if it is right," says Charlotte Macaux Perelman, an architect who was recruited in 20143 with Alexis Fabry, an art curator and book publisher, to run the furniture and housewares atelier, as she reflects on the three years and dozens of prototypes it took to find the Japanese craftsmen to make the silken curved bamboo, strengthened by imperceptibly small slivers of carbon fiber, for the leather-topped stools by the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza.
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But they quickly gave way to a dance of the many, many veils (no pun intended): full ball skirts composed of layers of tulle and organza with big roses scrimmed underneath; sheer tulle shirts scribbled with italics (they turned out to read "Armani Privé," though you'd never know it) or strategically dotted with patent leather roses; hemlines that faded imperceptibly into lace that climbed the sides of the leg; and beading that jangled as the models walked, swaying like some very noisy palm fronds.
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Maybe that is what's bringing this company down, isn't it, inch by inch by inch, and yeah you float through this job because it doesn't mean anything to you, but when the CEO sadly makes an announcement at the end-of-year, you immediately shoot your hand up and ask if there's going to be salary increases, and all around you, faces, turning, imperceptibly, all of them chalking up one final additional mark in their head: That prick is my enemy, they're all thinking, I hate that prick with my life.
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Johannessen's 40-minute audio drama (also broadcast on local radio each Sunday of the show's duration) narrates the eye's evolution in nature through an extended meditation by a software designer called Mx. The paradox of the piece — an audio recording about sight — draws attention to the act of perception and the immediate environment: scientific eye diagrams folded into origami fortune tellers are piled inconspicuously on a table; light changes from warm to cool almost imperceptibly throughout the play; daisies mentioned in passing are arranged in a vase; signs for prosthetic limbs hang nearby.
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"Why is he bringing all this up?" you ask your care advocate, who sits next to you for five hours and writes in her notebook "BREATHE," and then writes "break," and then "break," again, and you keep shaking your head imperceptibly to say no, you don't need a break, you can finish this, and then she underlines "break," and then she underlines it again, and then again, and then you take a break and she says that she can see what they're doing, which is wearing you down, and you push your arms against the wall and you try and make yourself bigger because if you stop, you think, you'll never get started again.
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