“He believed in walking beautifully, elegantly. It had to work as a kind of faith that he would get to the other side. He had fallen once while training - once exactly, so he felt it couldn't happen again, it was beyond possibility. A single flaw was necessary anyway. In any work of beauty there had to be one small thread left hanging.”

—  Colum McCann, book Let the Great World Spin

Let the Great World Spin (2009), Let the Great World Spin Forever Down

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