Cornwallis Redux
The statue's coming down, congrats to those who care. But history cannot be rewritten, and the memory of summer 2011 remains. As you sat there amid PhD applications, searching for rebirth across the water, that never took, and brought you back. Here.
Fresh off the 3-Day Novel challenge then, that still has not been bettered in terms of writing efforts taken. How everything today, as you build back toward another sudden reversal, seems a talisman of past and future both. A circle returning in upon itself before moving on.
So a quick photo of Edward, and then out of the cold to the comfort of shelter on a blustery February night, post-the second last meeting as chair of SBTS...
If not Freeport then what? That's the question to be posed, the answer to be demanded and prepared, if sitting at the foot of that statue, rather than tucked in for the night and the Twitterati response to the State of the Union.
And I'm ready for the deeper pondering of it. The outlines remain. The return from the South. The readying of 601 for sale pre-WC. The farewell summer with the SC. The questions. The lifestyle change. Not yet, but soon.
Years 1979-1999, call them Part I. Let Part II begin on arrival in Glasgow in August,, and run that through to 2009. Part III starts in March, with the departure for Roma and 6 months of freedom ahead. I thought it might end in 2011, but that was a false transition. I think Part III ends in 2019.
The question for the Europa, truly, is how Part IV will begin...

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