The Colonel Broken bottles were embedded in the walls around the house to scoop the kneecaps from a man's legs or cut his hands to lace. He spilled many human ears on the table. He took one of them in his hands, ...

not related to current times at all this colonel does not exist in current times our ears are not pressed to the ground right now

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It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.

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A Mind Distilled, A We If I were to teach Carolyn Forché

What we learn about writing this moment now, and the we, from the tremendously talented #CarolynForche. #writingcommunity #memoir #universalmemoir #literaryessays thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/a-mind-dis...

“We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work."
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