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Flashcards in The Past Deck (11)
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1
Q

we possessed together…

MA

A

the precious, the incommunicable past.

2
Q

road, leading not into the future, but…

A

into the past.

3
Q

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge

A

what a man will store up in his ghostly heart

4
Q

after she had obliterated 4 year with that sentence…

A

… They were to go back to Louisville… just as if it were 5 years ago.

5
Q

So we beat on, boats

A

against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past

6
Q

Can’t repeat the past?

A

Why of course you can

7
Q

a great circle

A

where the Indians used to ride

8
Q

the places and people of

MA

A

my own infinitesimal past.

9
Q

Fella gets use’ to a place,

Grapes

A

it’s hard to go”

10
Q

Didn’t nobody tell you this is the machine age?

Grapes

A

They don’t use mules for nothing but glue no more. (car salesman)

11
Q

GRAPES “How will

A

we know it’s us without our past?”