"If memory is a palace, let me live there, forever with her, somewhere in that place between sleep and morning. . . Let me dream a palace in the clear night sky, . . . a place lit by stars and a winter moon."
The Memory Palace / Mira Bartok, 2011 (quoted from the review in The New York Times)
"To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry."
Gaston Bachelard
Christopher Buckley was preparing to sell his parents' home. Instructed by the real estate agent to "lighten and brighten," he painted shades of white over his mother's palette of reds and browns. A friend told him that his mother would be proud.
He replied, "It's possible. It's also possible that any night now, she's going to appear at the top of the staircase in a nightgown, holding a candelabrum and pointing a finger, and saying, 'Ec-ru, Brute?'"
(The Atlantic, Jan-Feb, 2011)
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