"These events link us together".
"The idea is that differences don't matter as long as there is a common cause that links us together".
He distinguishes between telephonic silences, which link us together "like a thick rope", from Skype ones that, as we avoid our interlocutors' eyes, only drive us further apart.
As the novel progresses, there are intimations that the warden and the narrator are no more than two halves of the same myopic, macho whole: "Between the two of us she was reduced to nothing; her only function might have been to link us together".
This planetary skin of networked communication that links us together is also reshaping the way business is conducted.
My goal is to photograph in a way that will link us together".
But we do not have a coherent national movement with a clear and bold agenda that links us together.
But music truly is something that links us together, and much alike the inner workings of Kanye's brain, it knows no boundaries, limitations, or clear-cut definitions.
"What I was seeking to do was to find that common bond and I envisaged the Foyle river system as being that common bond, I mean the Derg, the Mourne, the Finn, those are all tributaries of the Foyle and therefore part of that rivers system - something that was linking us all together," he said.
The authors rhapsodise about the possibility of a "connected society" based on "culture, identity and belonging" and all those "intermediate institutions which link us all together and give fulfilment to our lives".
