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The Map of Love (1999)
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But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.
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It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance. When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved — turned this way and that, examined, considered.
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If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
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So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away--
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March 23, 1950
(age 74)
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