SPINE

Friday, October 26, 2012

No to nostalgia

Why should I want to return
to a time where even when I occupied that time
I wanted to go back to another time
more previous,
and so on, like my head in barbershop mirrors,
endlessly deferring to its own
earlier version. What is the use of nostalgia?

—Jeffrey Skinner, from “Darwin’s Marathon.”

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