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“Just remember, your mother isn’t with us anymore, but you kids carry her forward in this world. You all have her inside you.”
“You have this choice when you go out and people ask how you’re doing. You can tell the truth, which you know will make them really uncomfortable, or seem inappropriate. Or you can lie. But then you’re lying.”)
In his heart of hearts he often believes that the dead do not return yet he is committed to the task of recovering one who is dead. It is no wonder that he feels that the world has lost its purpose, and no longer makes sense.
As we fail over and over to find the lost person, Parkes suggests, we slowly create a new world, the old one having been invalidated by death. It occurred to me that my metaphor finding was precisely this, a secular mind searching for its lost love.
