Whodunnit?
"If there be rags enough he will know her name
And be well pleased remembering it"
and
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
Two different writers. That's your only hint.
And be well pleased remembering it"
and
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
Two different writers. That's your only hint.
posted by Rich at 5/13/2006 10:56:00 AM
4 Comments:
Well the first one is Yeats. The 2nd one I dunno
Look at all this blogging! I have some catching up to do!
Yeats it is. The second is a fantastic writer that my roommate in Frosh and Junior years at Alfred introduced me to. You'll get it.
-Rich
I couldnt get it so I gave in and looked it up...
Edna St. Vincent Millay? Thats what I came up with...Reading more as we...err I speak...ummm type...it is wonderful stuff! Im liking it! Thanks!
Your Millay quote reminded me of a quote that has been on the top of my list for a few years---I heard it from a radio story...I think the speaker said it was from a chinese poet...I will have to doubleback to check...
"I am struck by the lightning of seeing you, after you have gone."
I probably don't have each word exactly right--I've been living with the phrase for too long---but ooh I just love the image and the utter simpllicity and conciseness that describes such a poignant, wrenching, shared feeling.
There is something else too--that I think has kept those words with me---the closest I can come to describing it is that it is like an onomatopoeia (you know the words that sound like the thing they are describing). The quote is an idea that strikes my insides and resounds in a similar way that a flash of lightning in the middle of the dark affects my senses.It makes my insides say, "Yes. That is it, exactly."
The quote was imbedded in a story told by a man who was searching for someone he had lost. He had hurt her feelings, she left--changed her number etc., and he had placed an ad in the classifieds trying to find her again.
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