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Do thy worst old Time;
despite thy wrong, my love shall in my verse ever live young(from Sonnet 19 by William Shakespeare)
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Listen: imagination is all we have as defense against capture and its inevitable changes.
(Alexie, ‘Captivity’, D’Agata p297).
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In the mind, words are heard bone-dry without the benefit of breath.
(Field, Thalia. “A [therefore] I”, D’Agata 420)
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Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
(from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe by Douglas Adams)
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The Dean at left, a lean yellowish man whose fixed smile nevertheless has the impermanent quality of something stamped into uncooperative material, is a personality-type I’ve come lately to appreciate, the type who delays need of any response from me by relating my side of the story for me, to me.
(from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace)
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(from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley)
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(from 1984 by George Orwell, p32)
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I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
(Addie Bundren from As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner)
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(from Light in August by William Faulkner)
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The fact that you chose a black and white photograph for the Faulkner sentence “Memory believes…” enhanced the meaning for me. Maybe it’s just because, in our (young) lives, black and white is automatically associated with being “old” but I think there’s something about the absence of color that make us feel as though we’re looking back. The George Orwell quote + photograph perfectly matched everything about 1984 (almost to the point of being too clear.)
Yeah, the effects on that dancing photo are also similar to what aged photos look like, literally (as in, they’re faded and not quite B&W anymore). And I agree about the Orwell being a bit cliché, but I mean… I just couldn’t resist =D