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Still Life with Oysters and Lemon ’s Meditation on Life, Death, and Memory
Edmée Lepercqblog.pshares.org
But Thomas Hart, who still feared death’s sting, was grieving in his pew under the halted moons. Weak light shone on the brass plaque bolted to the coffin: ANNE MARGARET MACAULAY. So that varnished pine contained her flushed cheeks, walking shoes, prudence, preference for Yorkshire tea, shyness, cuttings of African violet, habit of testing the heat
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Mastery has a Midas problem. Everything’s dying a gold-plated death.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Against Botticelli
poetry.princeton.edu
It seems strange for memories to run out of nowhere and circumgallop you like this. It seems strange for there to be memories; strange for there not to be memories; strange for time and space to have dissevered you from anything so radiant and pounding; strange for your mind now to disregard time and space so completely.
Amy Leach • Things That Are: Essays
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean-- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down -- who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pal
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