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What forms are available to us, to take and use as our own? Often the forms which endure in the world are the ones which allow themselves to be reproduced. They are recognised easily, made through signs and gestures which, in their repetition, become ordinary. Drawing a line through the day, numbered on the calendar, at the end of each evening. Making the sign of the cross as you pass the altar of a church. These gestures are available to use, and to use them suggests a faith in their meaning. More than the first part of the question, it is perhaps those last three words, as our own, which …