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I ran across mention of this one in a novel I recently finished (may have been Krueger's Lightning Strike?), and added it to my list. When I ran across it at the library I thought I'd take a chance on it, and wowza! Set in Maine, and the primary is a ...more "
These days, when I think of history, it occurs to me that maybe we have stopped moving forward, and are now just oscillating.
“...and time runs only one way.”
― Hamnet
― Hamnet
“... so thin and grey that every breath sounded like a resurrection.”
― Exit
― Exit
“Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle, or, a better metaphor, if dated, the links of a long chain, and even if those links are never put back together, which they will certainly never be, even if they remain for the rest of time dispersed across the earth like the fragile blown seeds of a dying dandelion, isn’t there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of one’s life is preserved in some way, that this very letter may one day mean something, even if it is a very small thing, to someone?”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
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