Claire Marvel by John Burnham Schwartz

Author:John Burnham Schwartz [Schwartz, John Burnham]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781400075805
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2002-01-22T16:00:00+00:00

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SUPPOSE SOMEONE WERE TO SAY TO YOU: These are the happiest days of your life, right now, and they are already ending. What would you do? You might craft yourself a credo, a phrase to live by; might write the words REMEMBER THIS on an index card and tack it to the wall above your desk. You might practice meditation, seeking through the emptying of your mind that state of mindfulness in which your life with its many attendant contradictions might one day be appreciated as it is, without questions of ownership or control. You might fail miserably at this. You might turn your back on your desk and the invocation (or imprecation) on the card, on the whole static cowardly life of the desk, only to find that no other life occurs to you, that you are not fit for any other existence; and so, losing your nerve for the hundredth time, you might retreat. The card would still be there on the wall, waiting for you. And you might once again sit gazing into the wake of all your feeling, a prisoner of memory, until before too long you realize that every one of your love poems to her has become an elegy, and every elegy, a love poem.

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