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“In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times.”

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source: Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956 (New York: Taylor & Francis, 1987), 320.

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medium: Poetry

“When I was a teenager in Boston, a man on the subway handed me a card printed with tiny pictures of hands spelling out the alphabet in sign language. I AM DEAF, said the card. You were supposed to give the man some money in exchange.
        I have thought of that card ever since, during difficult times, mine or someone else’s: surely when tragedy has struck you dumb, you should be given a stack of cards that explain it for you.”

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source: An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008), 73.

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medium: memoir

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