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"memory takes a lot of poetic license. it omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart." :tennessee williams, "the glass menagerie"

7.22.2006

Summer is here, hot and unhurried. There's nothing much to tell. Long days at work make the weeks slip past with little distinction. Matt and Valerie have left for Romania, and the rest of the family leaves Friday for two and a half weeks leaving just me and Maggie to fend for ourselves. I guess I look forward to school starting in a month and a half, but I've found there's really little difference between one schedule and another; even now, when there's no one here at all and each day exactly mirrors the last. It's the same choices, the same struggles, the same pervading mundanity. Life isn't glitz and glamour; even our brief moments of real experience leave us unsatisfied. There is no real transcendence in this life; only tantalizing glimpses of what awaits us. To live one's life well in the light of those glimpses, that is faith.

Reading:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The gulag archipelago
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A world split apart

Listening:
Radiohead: The Bends
Mogwai: Mr. Beast
Nick Drake: Pink Moon

posted by ethan # 7/22/2006 03:44:00 AM

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