Dance in the Full Moon

Dance in the Full Moon

O, the Frailty of Memory

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

1.4

I am turning slowly. I promise I am. Really. I just have to . . . move . . . just my shoulder. A slight turn to one side or the other, to give my head an added inch or two so I can see behind myself.

Well, I give up. They say "hindsight is 20/20," but the past is very hard to see.

10 comments:

  1. anelles47January 4, 2011 at 8:42 AM

    This was brilliant. I am sitting here staring. Eloquently.

    You need those glasses with mirrors. And maybe don't sit down so often.

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  2. Robby Van ArsdaleJanuary 4, 2011 at 9:24 AM

    Ah. WELL entirely possible. I suppose. But those glasses aren't very common outside of letches and creepers.

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  3. anelles47January 4, 2011 at 7:27 PM

    You can change that! You can do it!

    Or . . . just turn around.

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  4. burnhamJanuary 5, 2011 at 8:58 AM

    And put your back to the future. (?)

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  5. Robby Van ArsdaleJanuary 5, 2011 at 12:10 PM

    Maybe. But the future is uncertain. The past cannot be changed. From which can you gleam more information?

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  6. anelles47January 5, 2011 at 4:10 PM

    Oh good! This fits in perfectly with something I love to cite but have little opportunity to! Although it's really still irrelevant.

    Bernard Knox's book, "Backing into the Future," says that the Ancient Greeks believed that they were, in fact, backing into the future because they could not see into the future; they could only see the present and the past. So they used the past to explain and illuminate what they could of the future.

    So.

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  7. burnhamJanuary 5, 2011 at 7:20 PM

    That makes sense. As you create the present your future becomes more clear.

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  8. Robby Van ArsdaleJanuary 5, 2011 at 9:36 PM

    Good quote.

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  9. anelles47January 6, 2011 at 12:49 PM

    Brooke, you have so much talent. You perfectly synthesized everything I tried to say in seventy-four syllables into just fourteen syllables. ^_^

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  10. burnhamJanuary 9, 2011 at 7:17 PM

    I'm practicing for grading responses.

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