Friday, April 24, 2020

Nostalgia


Fernando Pessoa, from text 92, The Book of Disquiet, trans. from the Portuguese by Richard Zenith (New York: Penguin, 2003).

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[Not make the past great again?]

comments: 2

misterbagman said...

This cuts several ways, doesn't it?

Nostalgia for things that might have been

Nostalgia for things we are convinced happened but did not

Nostalgia for things we dreamt but confuse for memory of real events

weird.

Anyway, back to my daily bout of existential terror.

Michael Leddy said...

Pessoa often seems eerily relevant right now. I was thinking of Faulkner too — “The past isn’t even past,” something like that, but I was too indolent to look up the exact wording.