A COSMIC LAUNDRY IN WHICH NO SOCK EVER GO MISSING

'A mate is no ordinary friend: he or she is a bro, a dude, a homeboy, a pard, a pally--Someone who's got your back, who's connected to you by a kind of tribal bond...'

Mates: An Introduction from Zoetrope Magazine

'Mate is a comfortable and companionable word. Its world exudes a kind of biological or metaphysical rightness: a place where human beings, like those smiling giraffes shown boarding the ark in tandem in children's books, contentedly pair off forever. It is a cosmic laundry in which no sock ever goes missing. '

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