They Fade Away

"She said: What is history?

And he said: History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

He said: History is a pile of debris

And the angel wants to go back and fix things

To repair the things that have been broken

But there is a storm blowing from Paradise

And the storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the future

And this storm, this storm is called Progress"

 

- Laurie Anderson, "The Dream Before (for Walter Benjamin)"

 

Family photograph c. early 1950s, original photographer unknown. This version cropped and edited in 2021.

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