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lil · 3407 days ago · link · · parent · post: 10th Occasional Give Us a Quote from Your Recent Reading
The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
This is scarily true. From within the tradition, it is hard to decipher which parts of it are unhealthy and anti-human We think we might be springing ourselves from the past even as we reclaim it. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.