Dingo the Dissident

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Friday 22 February 2013

Joris-Karl* Huysmans wrote:

"The Present is unbearable,
 the Past disgusting,
 and the Future unthinkable."

author of Against the Grain / Against Nature




















He was writing before World War One.
He had a point.
But now he might say:

The Present is largely your own responsibility;
the Past is only memory,
and the Future won't happen.

*christened Charles-Marie-Georges

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