What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

Susan Griffin
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  1. The telling and the hearing of a story is not a simple act. The one who tells must reach down into deeper layers of the self, reviving old feelings, reviewing the past. Whatever is retrieved is reworked into a new form, one that narrates events...

  2. The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.

  3. My father learned his disinterest under the guise of masculinity. Boys don’t cry. There are whole disciplines, institutions, rubrics in our culture which serve as categories of denial. Science is such a category. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>The torture and death that Heinrich Himmler found disturbing to...

  4. The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

  5. The authorities did not wish to confront those citizens with the sight of the dead. Finally bodies were dumped unidentified into mass graves. Like plutonium waste which we would like to forget, these bodies had become poisonous.

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