When I am buried, all my thoughts and acts…

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When I am buried, all my thoughts and acts Will be reduced to lists of dates and facts

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When I am buried, all my thoughts and acts
Will be reduced to lists of dates and facts,
And long before this wan­der­ing flesh is rot­ten
The dates which made me will be all for­got­ten…

– John Mase­field, Biog­ra­phy

(quot­ed in Joseph Losey’s 1964 war film King and Coun­try)


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When I am buried, all my thoughts and acts…


acts dates facts forgotten rotten thoughts

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