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Anything Not Saved Will Be Lost

by Sharmeen Imran | January 22, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

This kind of place feels almost inevitable, doesn’t it? After all, what could be more natural than this pursuit, than to try and catch memories falling from the sky? We clutch at nostalgia, tie it to technology, let our yearning find purchase on wires and bytes. It doesn’t matter that each piece of data is as mortal as we are.

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It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified

– Friedrich Nietzsche,

Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik

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148.1

Time needs a watcher, and when you close your eyes / the voices sound the same.

148.2

returns to the cave / rolls back the stone / remembers again / what it is to die

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Acta Victoriana is the literary journal of Victoria College and the longest running university student publication in Canada. Since its founding in 1878, it has maintained a legacy of artistic excellence and boasts alumni such as Margaret Atwood, George Elliot Clarke, and E. J. Pratt.

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