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David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 21:04:26 CDT 2016


And it is an "exiled" woman

On Thursday, September 8, 2016, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Their certain love" is a category of love described by the the words that
> follow. It is an exhaled love.
>
> On Thursday, September 8, 2016, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> V359.10-20, P364.31-365.3   Tchitcherine will reach the Kirghiz Light,
>> but not his birth. He is no aqyn, and his heart was never ready. He
>> will see It just before dawn. He will spend 12 hours then, face-up on
>> the desert, a prehistoric city greater than Babylon lying in stifled
>> mineral sleep a kilometer below his back, as the shadow of the tall
>> rock, rising to a point, dances west to east and Džaqyp Qulan tends
>> him, anxious as child and doll, and drying foam laces the necks of the
>> two horses. But someday, like the mountains, like the young exiled
>> women in their certain love, in their innocence of him, like the
>> morning earthquakes and the cloud-driving wind, a purge, a war, and
>> millions after millions of souls gone behind him, he will hardly be
>> able to remember It.
>>
>> What's the meaning of "in their certain love" and "in their innocence of
>> him"?
>> -
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>>
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