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30 | Autobiography: Urn Burial 1 I could say “authenticity” will have been about trying to overtake the past, inhabit it long enough to look around, say “Oh,” but the past is tricky, holds off. So are we really moving? Or is this something like the way form appears to chase function? 2 I might hazard that my life’s course has been somewhat unusual. When I say that, I hear both an eager claim and a sentence that attempts to distance itself by adopting the style of a 19th-century English gentleman. The failed authority of such sentences is soothing, like watching Masterpiece Theatre. | 31 When I recount my experiences, whatever they may have been, I’m aware of piping tunes I’ve heard before. Or jumbled snatches of familiar tunes. The fancy cannot cheat for very long, can it? In the moment of experience, one may drown while another looks on. ...

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