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Thought for the Day What I had to face....

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Apparently Maxwell Perkins took all the brilliant little bits he wrote and put them in some coherent order. So maybe this comment is about the cruelty of editors. Wolfe wrote about the parts of North Carolina currently devastated by climate change.

“. . . a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces.​

O waste of lost, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on this weary, unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When?​

O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.”​

― Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
 
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