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December 12 - December 24, 2021
“No one knows his own story, and that’s the way of it, unless you make it up yourself,”
Luck and grace: an unmatching pair of boots with which to address a long dusty road.
All paths lead to the same place, and that place is whatever comes next.
How many times in a life, he thought, will I lie down in a darkness whose character I cannot imagine, to see what daybreak reveals of my new circumstances? Or is that every day of my life?
You might forget a story, but you can never unhear a story. By that token, you might forget an event, but you can never go back to living as you did before its hidden influence was applied upon you.
“The old gods steal secretly into our own times.
Was music beautiful because it was full of mystery, Dirk wondered, or was it full of mystery because it was beautiful?