[The quotation gets something of an amused look, still tinted with melancholy.]
Before that, actually. 'When the world was new' is a time written on top of our ruins.
[From where he came from or not, it seems it is universal enough to strike a familiar chord.]
Powerful as memory is, it is but a pale reflection with only one keeper. The true power of such a thing has always come from being shared, no?
[Perhaps not the intended audience, but this is still a show for someone, not merely his own revisitings of those lost times. Even for him, those have lost details to the washing away of time, leaving only the vague shapes of the sand where once details were as sharp as day.]
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Before that, actually. 'When the world was new' is a time written on top of our ruins.
[From where he came from or not, it seems it is universal enough to strike a familiar chord.]
Powerful as memory is, it is but a pale reflection with only one keeper. The true power of such a thing has always come from being shared, no?
[Perhaps not the intended audience, but this is still a show for someone, not merely his own revisitings of those lost times. Even for him, those have lost details to the washing away of time, leaving only the vague shapes of the sand where once details were as sharp as day.]