"This journal is not a mere literary diversion. The further I progress, reducing to order what my past life suggests, and the more I persist in the rigor of composition--of the chapters, of the sentences, of the book itself--the more do I feel myself hardening in my will to utilize, for virtuous ends, my former hardships. I feel their power." --Jean Genet
23 October 2013
Patience and Paralysis
During those late night conversations--a tete a tete, profile facing profile, eyes absorbing into eyes--the two young men had learned to modulate their voices so that they could understand the secret language they were already developing between them. In the afterglow of battle, facing the fading light of a January evening, one mumbling promises the other whispering his fears...
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