<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Hobo Std'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: teal;" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">"What appears to be a breaking down of civilization<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">may well be simply the breaking up of old forms by life itself."</span></b><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Hobo Std'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Minion Pro Bold'; color: teal;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""> ~<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Tahoma;" class="">Joyce Carol Oates<o:p class=""></o:p></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span></span></div></div></body></html>