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First nights in strange places can determine how one sees them forever after. And now this same tropic opiate fills my lungs and heart and awakens m… - James Hamilton-Paterson
" "First nights in strange places can determine how one sees them forever after.
And now this same tropic opiate fills my lungs and heart and awakens memories of things which have never happened and foretelling things which will never be.
Experiences of great intensity - a special dream, a period of concentrated work, maybe a love affair - have in common that they are unusually real while they last. Yet it is precisely this quality which so easily vanishes. Afterwards, how unreal it all suddenly seems!
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