In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt…

Don DeLillo
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In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past. ✨ Don DeLillo (2011). White Noise, p.35, Pan Macmillan
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