In retentis

"Fortunately it's unhealthy to insist on living in the past, but you can't be very proud of yourself when you realize you've more or less disowned it. That's why they invented that dreadful compromise: Commemoration. Yesterday blood, today red wine salted with tears. Many people find release that way. To others, it must seem horrible."

Simone de Beauvoir - The Mandarins

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Tornetrask, Swedish Lapland.

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 " I don't suppose you'll ever forgive me

for being so silent

the silence, this silence, belongs to you

semi quavers of doubt

interpolated

laughter drifts into the mist

this silence is beyond

both the silence you voice says nothing"

(Desmond Donnellan - Scribblings)

  

                                     

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