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Theory of Memory by Louise Gluck

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Posted 2014-November-11, 08:38

Theory of Memory

by Louise Gluck

Long, long ago, before I was a tormented artist, afflicted with longing yet
incapable of forming durable attachments, long before this, I was a glorious
ruler uniting all of a divided country—so I was told by the fortune-teller
who examined my palm. Great things, she said, are ahead of you, or perhaps
behind you; it is difficult to be sure. And yet, she added, what is the difference?
Right now you are a child holding hands with a fortune-teller. All the
rest is hypothesis and dream.

from Faithful and Virtuous Night. © Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014
If you lose all hope, you can always find it again -- Richard Ford in The Sportswriter
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