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Valentine’s and a Rose for Emily
Today I wish to return to your awareness an aspect of the Human condition that words can hardly express. It’s a path that leads to a place euphemistically referred to as nowhere. It’s a journey of still reflection and quiet repose that entwines the shadows of yesterday with dreams that never were. It’s a road that ends beneath a solitary lamp light, clarifying the evening amber. And within this hallowed glow, the umbra of solitude, there’s a vision of finality. In this light, an empty house sits where a home used to be. And through the window glass one can see from the outside looking in.
In the late sixties a band from England known as “The Zombies” released an album containing a fairly obscure track entitled “A Rose for Emily.” The song title was said to have been inspired by William Faulkner’s work of the same name. Though uniquely different in message, both renditions contain emotionally charged elements of tragic love and loneliness.
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