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EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

Duino Elegies–Ranier Maria Rilke

Memoro Ergo Sum

Memoro Ergo Sum

September 22, 2017 Jerry King Comments 0 Comment

But this memory is the glue that keeps the universe as one: although immaterial it makes being possible, it is being.

If an idea did not remember to think
it wouldn’t be.
If a chair wasn’t there,
it wouldn’t be tomorrow.
If I didn’t remember that I am,
I won’t be.
We can also say that the universe is the glue that keeps it going,
therefore it is memory in action,
and in essence,
in becoming and in being.

Because it remembers itself,
it exists.
Because it exists,
it remembers.

–excerpt from Night by Etel Adnan

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