The Offing
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Read between October 29 - November 25, 2020
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For no one ever really wins a war: some just lose a little less than others.
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War is war: it’s started by the few and fought by the many, and everyone loses in the end. There’s no glory in bloodshed and bullet holes. Not a bit of
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Wander around long enough with your eyes open and soon enough you’ll find things. Great journeys are never about the destination.’
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‘You don’t say much, and I like that. There is poetry in silence but most don’t stop to hear it. They just talk, talk, talk, but say nothing because they are afraid of hearing their own heartbeat. Afraid of their own mortality.’
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No one starts wars when they are fulfilled, that much is certain, and the pursuit of personal freedom can now be viewed as a radical act.
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permanence is an impossibility. All is flux. And nature always wins.
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Viv JM
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Viv JM
Sheridan - the context here probably matters as it was when talking about the sea eroding the cliff since the narrator was there 30 years before: "...the country has shrunk by twenty or thirty feet ju…
Shazza Hoppsey
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Shazza Hoppsey
Viv your right. As you say my comments are dependent on my mood... I am at the start of “On Time and Water” by Andri Snaer Magnason and feel sadness over peoples repetitious disregard of the earth. Th…
Viv JM
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Viv JM
I've not come across that book, I will look it up. I feel you on the sadness and I found The Offing a good antidote to that.