Friday, 11 December 2009

Thought for the day...come crowding in upon your latter-day senses

Richard Ford
US Author

"construed...home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you.

A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma snifffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses.

Those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling"

From: an urge for going (Harpers, Feb 1992)

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