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The Seeming Inevitabilities
Shapes Coalescing
Created on 2007-02-07 16:04:39 (#12230266), last updated 2009-07-15
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Basic Info| Name: | portolan |
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| Location: | Texas, United States |
BioWhat disturb me as I grow older are the seeming inevitabilities of lives -- most of all, my own. The Buddhists' endlessly repetitious Sea of Samsara, I suppose: the dark tossing sea.
We struggle on, and at the end of a long passage, when we thought we had left behind the past, we find the past again: the same shapes forming before us as we fight toward them, shapes coalescing like a Polaroid picture to our eyes, gradually, magically, fatally. Until ourselves come clear, again -- but to our disappointment.
We circle to it in the dark, to the past. The fossils that we find are our predecessor selves, and our present selves, eerily, exactly, repeated.
-- Lance Morrow, Heart: A Memoir
We struggle on, and at the end of a long passage, when we thought we had left behind the past, we find the past again: the same shapes forming before us as we fight toward them, shapes coalescing like a Polaroid picture to our eyes, gradually, magically, fatally. Until ourselves come clear, again -- but to our disappointment.
We circle to it in the dark, to the past. The fossils that we find are our predecessor selves, and our present selves, eerily, exactly, repeated.
-- Lance Morrow, Heart: A Memoir
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