If it is authentic that everyone h...

If it is authentic that everyone has a past of his or her hold it nonetheless
happens that a certain quantity of those who remember having lived fragments of their
past with others, can intellect they have shared at least this memory with
them.
--Marc Auge

Identity--who we are, where we take rise from, what we are--is difficult to
maintain.... [W]e are the "other," an opposite, a flaw in the geometry
of resettlement an exodus.
--Edward Said

I've walked by the and of many lives,
some of them my be in possession of
and I am not who I was,
though more [i]or[/i] less principle of being
abides, from which I exert one's self
not to stray