“history’s footprints threaded among the trees” (Kari Gunter-Seymour via SWWIM) or a history’s footprints threaded though this ixora.
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The idea of paradise
The idea of paradise is no longer imaginable or, rather, it is over-imagined, which amounts to the same thing—and has therefore become familiar, commercialized, even trivial (TM).
Preoccupations frame what we saw
On these long walks he did not forget his preoccupations. He used them to frame what we saw (ZS)
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Pleasure … can fortify us. The pleasure that is beauty, the beauty that is meaning, order, calm. Orwell found this refuge in natural and domestic spaces, and he repaired to them often and emerged from them often to go to war on lies, delusions, cruelties, and follies.
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“forlorn hunger for certainties” “in the physics of the heart, distance is relative; it’s time that’s absolute” Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor.
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AG2018_1490143a4 or place to stand and stare
Related: place to stand and stare.
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“Don’t be afraid. This is the place. On the far side.” “I can’t see shit. I can hardly see you.” “Don’t see; feel,” she said. “You can feel your way, but hurry, hurry.
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“This is the place. Where you can take a choice.”
Morrison, Tar Baby.
Related : Place marked with an impulse, at an impasse.