In the Tank

“I saw from very close up the face of an axolotl immobile next to the glass. No transition and no surprise, I saw my face against the glass, I saw it on the other side of the glass. Then my face drew back and I understood.” —Julio Cortázar, “Axolotl” (-66)

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If there is one certain law of our age, setting it off from all that came before, it is that far…