"We take the staples of modern life so much for granted until we're deprived of them. People do live quite well without what we consider to be basics, but they manage because they've never been deskilled by their presence. To lose them when you've lived all your life with power at the touch of a switch and water at the turn of a tap is shocking, then unsettling, then grindingly depressing."
–– Val McDermid (b. 1955), Scottish author
Source: Val McDermid. The Skeleton Road. Toronto: Harper Collins, 2014; p. 234.
via: Commonplace Book 2022, 2022, p. 56-7.
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