Steven Millhauser, “Phantoms,” in Voices in the Night (2015).
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“So thick with phantoms”
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
“Who are we as a country?”
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
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Every time I see a monarch butterfly , there’s my father!
Just try and *not*have phantoms.
Yep. That passage hit me between the eyes
I have to add: that image of a father’s dangling slipper goes all the way back to Edwin Mullhouse, Steven Millhauser’s first novel.
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