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@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ I must set no stones between me and my actions.\\
I must show no hesitation when speaking my name,\\
for that is my only possession.
The only time I know my true name is when I dream.\footnote{Now known as Sasha after the events told in Ioan Bălan's \emph{Individuation \& Reconciliation}, later published under the title \emph{Mitzvot}. I will write her a \emph{zikhrona livracha}, here, as she who is True Name is no more, not as she was.}\\
The only time I know my true name is when I dream.\footnote{Now known as Sasha after the events told in Ioan Bălan's \emph{Individuation \& Reconciliation}, later published under the title \emph{Mitzvot}. I will write her a \emph{zikhrona livracha}, here, as she who is True Name is no more, not as she was, and to her, to so many of us, this, too, is a death.}\\
The only time I dream is when need an answer.\\
Why ask questions, here at the end of all things?\\
Why ask questions when the answers will not help?\\
@ -118,10 +118,10 @@ That which lives is forever praiseworthy,\\
for they, knowing not, provide life in death.\\
Dear the wheat and rye under the stars:\\
serene; sustained and sustaining.\\
Dear, also, the tree that was felled\footnote{No longer with us here on Lagrange}\\
Dear, also, the tree that was felled\footnote{No longer with us here on Lagrange. A loss is a loss is a loss; may its memory be a blessing.}\\
which offers heat and warmth in fire.\\
What praise we give we give by consuming,\\
what gifts we give we give in death,\\
what gifts we give we give in death,\\\pagebreak
what lives we lead we lead in memory,\\
and the end of memory lies beneath the roots.
@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ 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\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.}\\
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 memory \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\textquotedbl L}}\\