Posted by beckett2 on April 14, 2018, at 21:57:11
In reply to Re: I make no comment, posted by sigismund on April 14, 2018, at 18:05:59
> From 100 years ago
>
> What is that sound high in the air
> Murmur of maternal lamentation
> Who are those hooded hordes swarming
> Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth
> Ringed by the flat horizon only
> What is the city over the mountains
> Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
> Falling towers
> Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
> Vienna London
> Unreal
>
> My grandfather fought in what is nor Syria and Israel.
>
> 'The past is not history, it isn't even past. To believe otherwise is criminal.' James BaldwinWho wrote the above? And apt quote from Baldwin, whom I've never really read.
That image on the album cover of Post Empire. That's how I imagine your grandfather.
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