December 2009
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“There is no antidote … against the opium of time. The winter sun shows how...”
– WG Sebald (paraphrasing Sir Thomas Browne), The Rings of Saturn
October 2009
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“… the passions, when we know that they cannot find fulfillment, become vision; and a vision, whether we wake or sleep, prolongs its power by rhythm and pattern, the wheel where the world is butterfly. We need no protection but it does, for if we become interested in ourselves, in our own lives, we pass out of the vision.”
— William Butler Yeats