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Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitary
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It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.
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It is cut, polished; for a breath, it passes between the hands of men
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Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling.
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Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it, like clouds across the sky?
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You must never stop believing. - Madame Manec
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I wasn't trying to reach England. or Paris. I thought that if I made the broadcast powerful enough, my brother would hear me. That I could bring him some peace, protect him as he had always protected me." You'd play your brother's own voice to him? After he died?""And Debussy." Did he ever talk back?" The attic ticks. What ghosts sidle along the walls right now, trying to overhear? She can almost taste her great-uncle's fright in the air. "No," he says. "He never did.
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I wasn't trying to reach England. Or Paris. I thought that if I made the broadcast powerful enough, my brother would hear me. That I could bring him some peace, protect him as he had always protected me.""You'd play your brother's own voice to him? After he died?""And Debussy.""Did he ever talk back?"The attic ticks. What ghosts sidle along the walls right now, trying to overhear? She can almost taste her great-uncle's fright in the air. "No," he says. "He never did.
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The stars were so many and so white they looked like chips of ice, hammered through the fabric of the sky.
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