“Sometimes this seems to be a strange and terrible kingdom where the earth engenders not life but death.” - Vasily Grossman, “An Armenian Sketchbook”

In his travels to Soviet Armenia just before his death in the early 1960s, writer Va s ily Grossman was a foreigner, yet still within his country's borders. Borders carry a weight for us -- beyond them lies the unknown within the context of the familiar. We've created a system where we must abide by borders and crossing one is never meaningless like it is for an animal.