"The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not."

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Source : "A Fish Dinner in Memison". Book by Eric Rucker Eddison, 1941.

Eric Rucker Eddison

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