Tag Archives: time

‘The Women’ (after Pasternak)

Posted on April 3, 2026 by Patrick Miles

Garden real, not real, mere real, unreal, indivisible for them, their being. Green-gilt catkins hang — then shudder, hurl angelstruck: ‘He is not dead, but living!’ And everything they knew is put aside. A rock may move. Myrrh is not … Continue reading →

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Hello chronotopia old friend..?

Posted on December 4, 2020 by Patrick Miles

‘Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards’, said Kierkegaard. Regrettably, this is of course true. We are like maggots, chewing our way relentlessly forwards through Time, but we are thinking maggots who constantly need to … Continue reading →

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The dear departed

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Patrick Miles

After writing the last sentence of George’s life in its strict earthly sense (I have two short chapters about his and Kittie’s afterlife still to write), I left the manuscript chapter for a day before coming back to revise it, as … Continue reading →