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Come Close
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Moon and the Pleiades go down. Midnight and tryst pass by. I, though, lie Alone. Peace, you never seemed so tedious As now – no, never quite like this. Over eyelids dark night fell Invisible.
“Ostension. A process by which real-life actions are unconsciously modelled on a legend, thereby narrated into praxis. Like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Or seeing ghosts in an old house that you have been told is haunted.”
― These Darkening Days
― These Darkening Days
“the ouzo having oiled away their inhibitions.”
― These Darkening Days
― These Darkening Days
“The rock is cold and impartial beneath his hand. When he places a palm there he feels time slip away. Ancient and obvious, it is incapable of experiencing pain. With trembling hands Garner turns up his collar and zips up his coat.”
― These Darkening Days
― These Darkening Days
“amor ipse notitia est and amor ipse intellectus est”
― The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century
― The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century
“My most dear, we have fought many fights together, and this is the last of them and it must be the best. If it is given to men to remember in the life we go to, remember that I loved you, and do not forget that you loved me.”
― Sword at Sunset
― Sword at Sunset
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