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The weight of the world weighs heavy on young Archy’s shoulders. On Border Line he describes his body merging into the deep cruel sea, but his soul floats above it, like Jean-Dominique Bauby’s imagination in The Diving Bell And The Butterfly.

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August 23, 2013
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