Often erroneously attributed to Pablo Neruda, this short poem by Martha Medeiros suggests that we need to make a concerted effort to avoid death in small doses.
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Memory Resurrects
Marcel Proust’s famous tea & madeleine excerpt from Volume I of his À la recherche du temps perdu suggests that remembering the dead can bring them back to life. Their souls are imprisoned in material objects, earthbound until we set them free.
Remembering is thus a sacred obligation, and forgetting, I might add, can be tantamount to an act of murder.
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Save the Children
Visualization of Holden Caulfield’s poignant “crazy” dream of protecting endangered kids in Chapter 22 of Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.
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giblets & flapdoodle 