A Year
"How is it possible, after all, that someone should simply vanish? How can someone who lived, loved, and wrangled with God and himself just disappear? I don't know how and in what sense but they're here. Since time is an illusion, why shouldn't everything remain?"
- Issac Beshevis Singer, Shosha.
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Your Shosha quote puts me in mind that I hesitate to rank the hideous array of pains and insults a death brings, but one of the most offensive is that the world just carries blithely on as though everything were fine. It feels so bitterly unfair how it doesn't stop, even for a brief moment, to acknowledge.
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We cannot help but recall times and people dear to us - but to remember them with pleasure does them more honor than to focus on what we did or couldn't do in the past.
From A Cherokee Feast of Days.
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