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Language to thread the past and present
I once measured the length of a month by the book of Proverbs and the entire Psalter. I could conjure an entire imaginative world through snatches of a phrase from a story or parable. Even as the threads of my life attenuate the meaning I was taught to associate with the words, these patterns of language bind me to a past and present I can neither fully choose nor reject.
