Sunday, January 18, 2009

unresolved violent, turbulent past


"The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past."
- William Faulkner [1897 – 1962] as cited by Barack Obama [born 1961]

The 1951 Requiem for a Nun quotation: 
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
Eugene O'Neill's perspective here.