theatreofsin

[…]because the tragedy is not that these people suffer, separately, in live rendered distant by space and time and the fickle appetites of imagination, not that they, individually, are tragic, not that the vastness of potential and experience renders them small in comparison, not that the world around them gapes so vast and unknowable in its entirety, but that such a small thread could bind them together (a touch, a chance, an encounter) and yet this thread has never been drawn[…]