Even as she falls in love again, she holds fast to the knowledge 'that every intimacy carries, secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surface, the ever-coiled makings of completecatastrophe'.
The Times Literary Supplement
A total and completecatastrophe.
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Firms that accept a degree of failure as a natural part of innovation and learn from it are actually less likely to suffer a completecatastrophe, he said.