A child, thought Carl, is not the only result of childbirth. A mother, too, is born. You see … - Joshua Ferris

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It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

Joshua Ferris

A child, thought Carl, is not the only result of childbirth. A mother, too, is born. You see them every day--nondescript women with a bulge just above the groin, slightly double-chinned. Perpetually forty. Someone's mother, you think. There is a child somewhere who has made this woman into a mother, and for the sake of the child she has altered her appearance to better play the part.

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