“The Rapture is obviously a cataclysmic event. But I started realizing it was a metaphor for getting older, for mortality, and living with mortality. It’s really powerful. We all basically live in a world that we define by the people who have disappeared.”
About This Quote
This was not in the rapture book technically, but in an interview amended to the book with the author.
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