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Loss, memory, and heritage explored in multi-faceted, meandering sentences that requires some patience from the reader, but with a powerfully poignant payoff.
"...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power or memory is never heard, never...more

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