I'm attracted to the past.

Tom Stoppard
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I'm attracted to the past.
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And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute. ✨ Tom Stoppard (2007). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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