Five More Pieces of Fleeting Advice

• “I cannot help vanishing and disappearing and dissolving. It is my foremost trait. -Stephen Crane-
• “One way or another, it seems, we all perform vanishing tricks, effacing history, locking up our lives and slipping day by day into the graying shadows.” -Tim O’Brien-
• “I do have a sense, and I’ve never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.” -Doris Lessing-

• “I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It’s very strange how often strong feelings don’t seem to carry any message of action.” -Phillip Larkin-
• “The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects-making it possible…to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.” -Susan Sontag-

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