Another mansion
August 2011
18 posts
God only knows →
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I’ve been following Will Davies’ blog for some while and this is a typically insightful and challenging piece.
“
Memory
And you wait, await the one thing
that will infinitely increase your life;
the gigantic, the stupendous,
the awakening of stones,
depths turned round toward you.
The volumes in brown and gold
flicker dimly on the bookshelves;
and you think of lands traveled through,
of paintings, of the garments
of women found and lost.
And then all at once you know: that was it.
You rise, and there stands before you
the fear and prayer and shape
of a vanished year.
