Themes · 1951
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
— William Faulkner • Requiem for a Nun
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker says the past does not stay behind us: it remains alive and continues to shape the present. What has happened cannot be filed away as finished, because its effects still reach into today and are never truly over.
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