“Always
the following wind of history
Of
others' wisdom makes a buoyant air
Till
we come suddenly on pockets where
Is
nothing loud but us; where voices seem
Abrupt,
untrained, competing with no lie
Our
fathers shouted once.”—English poet-critic W.H. Auden (1907-1973) (in photograph)
and English novelist-memoirist Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts (1936)
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