Before We Had Words

Before We Had Words
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 123
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ISBN-10 : 9780773574366
ISBN-13 : 0773574360
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Book Synopsis Before We Had Words by : S.P. Zitner

Download or read book Before We Had Words written by S.P. Zitner and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002-07-24 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words across a Ouija Board: Memory is the mother of the Muses, said the Greeks. What we write are shadows of recollections, fictions growing out of other fictions. But now these words grow out of memory failing, as where and when blanch slowly to perhaps. The two who sheltered from the sudden downpour, hugging close, or woke to each other in the dark, or quarreled hatefully-were they snatches of old stories, or were you once my wife? Death veils you in the features of passers-by, and age makes yellow secrets of our letters, until the past is unalloyed with circumstance, and becomes pure moments of unearned deserving.


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