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This is WONDERFUL! I love the direct address and the concrete details of the city, very evocative. And this line, it is incredible: “I am calling back through time, hoping the echoes will bounce off the corridors of history and memory, a kind of locational sonar for the person I was, who will somehow hear and find a connection to the present.”

Can’t wait to read more!

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Thank you so much! Posting it was kind of an experiment, I usually share more linear essays on this platform. I’m so so glad it resonated ❤️

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Amazing as always! A pull into the memoir itself...can't wait until I can read the whole thing!

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Oct 6Liked by This is Rachel

Rachel you are brilliant and I want to read more. More entanglement in philosophical metaphors, and more of your attempt to grapple the ways we trip over our many storied selves, again and again, in search of meaning. The broken, mysterious, love story lurks at the heart of the self-realisation campaign, as we gaze at our old self, subject to object. The tyranny of an ill body's hiatus from time in motion's incessant production, reproduction, destruction and repetition.

What does the mind do in its solitary vault but turn towards the magnificent wake manifest by our past?

Yes, more please.

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Thank you Cassy! This is a lovely comment to read, you really get what I’m doing with this piece. I so appreciate you reading and commenting ❤️

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Oct 5Liked by This is Rachel

Many, many lines in this work are so well crafted.

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Thanks my DarkPoet friend <3

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Oct 5Liked by This is Rachel

I was absolutely riveted by this all the way through. Such vivid descriptions and pithy revelations. So beautifully done!

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Thank you friend ❤️

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