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Apr222022

History/Trapped

DateFriday, April 22, 2022 at 05:20PM

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

-James Baldwin

from "Stranger in the Village," Harper's Magazine, 1953

 

Words that elegantly speak what I was fumbling toward in my writing from last year.

AuthorJennifer Gandin Le | CommentPost a Comment |

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