Saturday, December 18, 2010

Transient

We don't forget,
but something vacant settles in us.
—Roland Barthes, from “Mourning Diary”


This time whatever that something is
isn’t checking in just for the duration.


NB: My thanks to Bob Arnold for this one.

2 comments:

  1. That is a wonderful quote. I can't see we not exploring that in a poem or even in my current novel.

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  2. A wonderful quote indeed but I can't see myself exploring it as it should be explored; your investigation would certainly do it more justice.

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