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Created on 2008-08-22 22:53:41 (#16421503), last updated 2009-12-24
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BioWe die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography--to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
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isle_ofwight.
It pulls me to itself,
the reflection, no, not mine:
I know the water's fidelity,
its utter transparence. The sea
becomes me like nothing
else: I wear it like skin.
Who pulls me with such
ease? A dead ancestor,
a lost friend, or
the shell's hollow cry?
The weeds wrap me, like arms.
I'm pulled down, down, to the tip of the sky.
I hold the world as I drown.
Agha Shahid Ali, Notes on the Sea's Existence
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