| | "I think of the pastness of the past: how the moment I am alive in,
prisoned in, moves like a slowly tumbling form through darkness, the
underground river. Not only ancient history - the mythical age of
the brothers' feud - but my own history one second ago, has vanished
utterly, dropped out of existence. King Scyld's gread deeds do
not exist 'back there' in Time. 'Back there in Time' is an
allusion of language. They do not exist at all. My
wickedness five years ago, or six, or tewlve, has no existence except
as now, mumbling, mumbling, sacrificing the slain world to the
omnipotence of words, I strain my memory to regain it."
From Grendel
the past is a funny thing.
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