Sunday 19 November 2023

The Old Ways - Robert MacFarlane - p284

" ....met with my own earlier footprints, raised up as footplinths. The uncanniness of such moments has its source in the encounter with the altered traces of an earlier self. The world has been slightly but importantly shifted between your first passage and your return..."

"Encounter with the altered traces of an earlier self", hum.

Update

Those words really caught my attention and I couldn't work out why, but of course, my life is filled with encounters with my earlier self. While I don't really think I 'died' (that way madness lies), it does feel like I am a different person, dwelling amidst the remains of that earlier me.

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