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Monday, October 31, 2011

Anecdotal Evidence: `The Kindly Mirrors of Future Times'

Anecdotal Evidence: `The Kindly Mirrors of Future Times'
Excerpt:
It’s about the creation of memories and the possibility of willing ourselves into the memories of others. The narrator says:

“I think that here lies the sense of literary creation: To portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of future times; to find in the objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern and appreciate in the far-off times when every trifle of our plain everyday life will become exquisite and festive in its own right: the times when a man who might put on the most ordinary jacket of today will be dressed up for an elegant masquerade."

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