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We are so quick to blame the familiar. Once fault is laid, then the matter may as well be settled, and it becomes someone else’s responsibility to atone for our faults. After all, there is nothing so unfamiliar to a man as his own self.
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Sep 19, 2018
Sep 19, 2018 at 10:46 AM UTC
In the Court of One's Own Mind
We are so quick to blame the familiar. Once fault is laid, then the matter may as well be settled, and it becomes someone else’s responsibility to atone for our faults. After all, there is nothing so unfamiliar to a man as his own self.
This didn't actually begin its life as a poem; it was an excerpt from a novel I'm working on.
mica-kluge
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Sep 19, 2018
Sep 19, 2018 at 10:46 AM UTC
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