" On one occasion, the students were asked in what natural form they would choose to be reborn. They excitedly cried out the names of different animals. When Yoshie's turn came, as his aunt Ineko would remind him for the rest of her life, he said he'd like to be turned into sand. And not just any old sand, he specified: the kind at the bottom of the ocean, so that no one could tread on him. "

― Andrés Neuman , Fractura