Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, 1929
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"...like the dream of a world that is visible before it takes shape as a reality."
Christiane Ritter, A Woman in the Polar Night, 1938passage is now available to pre-order from another place press
Introductory essay by Alison Morris
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He saw the sunlight leave the grass like an eye suddenly closed.
Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor, 1993
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No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim,
there are some things we can never assign to oblivion,
memories we can never rub away.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore, 2005
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Erasure is never merely a matter of making things disappear: there is always some detritus strewn about in the aftermath, some bruising to the surface from which word or image has been removed, some reminder of the violence done to make the world look new again. Whether rubbed away, crossed out or reinscribed, the rejected entity has a habit of returning, ghostlike: if only in the marks that usurp its place and attest to its passing.
Brian Dillon, The Revelation of Erasure, Tate Etc. Issue 8, 2006
Blessed are the forgetful.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886
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pulvis et umbra sumus
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, The Odes of Horace, 23 BC
