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Memory Of Absences

Memory of absences can sear
the unforgetting mind far more
than presences of power we revere,
and images we can ignore.

Inspired by the phrase “memory of absences” which Robert Alter used in a talk to the Association of Jewish Studies in which he spoke about the collective memory of the Israelites that the Deuteronomist inspired. Alter used the phrase “memory of absences” and highlighted the importance of the Deuteronomist’s rhetoric used to advance his program to purge Israel of all images.

Robert Alter’s response to the poem was as follows:

Dear Gershon,

Your poem is the highest compliment that could be paid to a lecture. One question: is 'that' at the beginning of the third line a typo for 'than'?

Cordially,

Bob Alter

He had picked up a typo that I had missed, signs of a great textual scholar!

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poem by Gershon Hepner
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Untwisted

Do not sweat or rain for me,
while I slip and fall to absences.

Do not sob at the gate of my silence;
nor wither in way-keeping in wait for me,
for I am not Jesus.

Do not waste your unclothed tears on the thumbs of my tomb;
for the throne of my grave do not have fears but hears the mocking crocodile affections.

Do not wait for the rebirth of my death,
for I am not red but lead by the loudness of silences.
So I do not slumber nor faint to darkness.

Because;
I float in a million clouds, which arouse ray and day.

I play and pray with the rainbow; till it snores to sleep.

I rear my lips for the moonlight;

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poem by King Femi Oloidi
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Algebraic Expression of Philippine Education System

A Student (self supporting or parent dependent)
Pays the tuition fee “X” equivalent to the number of classes “Y”
thus, the level of education (quantity = quality) .
However, the final grade “A”
is the difference of classes attended “Y” and absence “Z”.

Where:
X = Tuition Fee
Y = # of Classes
Z = # of Absences
A = Final Grade

A= X=Y
Y - Z

A Teacher (Instructor or Professor)
receives wage “W” equivalent to the number of Classes “C” attended.
Wage “W” is the difference of the classes “Y” and “D” absence.

Where:

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poem by Victorio Pueblo
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

quote by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

quote by Byron
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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

quote by George Byron
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In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

Tom Nolan in The Wall Street Journal
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In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

quote by Tom Nolan
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After

How empty after Christmas day,
When children leave our house for home.
Their absences after holiday,
Has left our house a catacomb.

(A Quatrain)

poem by Lynn W. Petty
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Absences

I was born by the sea
the sea was born in me
we both live in absences

rodjena sam kraj mora
more je rodjeno u meni
oboje zivimo u odsutnosti

poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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