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@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ I cannot stop myself from speaking.\\
I still have will and goals to attain,\\
I still have wants and needs.\\
And if I dream, is that not so?\\
If I dream, am I no longer myself?\footnote{\emph{Z$''$L}}\\
If I dream, am I no longer myself?\footnote{\emph{Z\textquotedbl L}}\\
If I dream, am I still buried beneath words?\\
And I still dream even while awake.
Life breeds life, but death must now be chosen\footnote{\emph{Z$''$L}. Later known as Qoheleth, whose story is told in Ioan Bălan's \emph{On the Perils of Memory}, later published under the title \emph{Qoheleth}.}\\
Life breeds life, but death must now be chosen\footnote{\emph{Z\textquotedbl L}. Later known as Qoheleth, whose story is told in Ioan Bălan's \emph{On the Perils of Memory}, later published under the title \emph{Qoheleth}.}\\
for memory ends at the teeth of death.\\
The living know that they will die,\\
but the dead know nothing.\\
@ -125,15 +125,15 @@ what gifts we give we give in death,\\
what lives we lead we lead in memory,\\
and the end of memory lies beneath the roots.
May one day death itself not die?\footnote{\emph{Z$''$L}}\\
May one day death itself not die?\footnote{\emph{Z\textquotedbl L}}\\
Should we rejoice in the end of endings?\\
What is the correct thing to hope for?\\
I do not know, I do not know.\footnote{\emph{Z$''$L}}\\
I do not know, I do not know.\footnote{\emph{Z\textquotedbl L}}\\
To pray for the end of endings\\
is to pray for the end of memory.\footnote{Shall I write here that her name, in death, is a blessing? Does she get her own \emph{zikhrona livracha?} I do not know, friends, but I will say that, yes, her name \emph{is} a blessing, regardless of whether or not she still lives.}\\
Should we forget the lives we lead?\\
Should we forget the names of the dead?\\
Should we forget the wheat, the rye, the tree?\footnote{\emph{Z$''$L}}\\
Should we forget the wheat, the rye, the tree?\footnote{\emph{Z\textquotedbl L}}\\
Perhaps this, too, is meaningless.
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