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Marcel Möring
IN A DARK WOOD
TRANSLATED BY SHAUN WHITESIDE
Ego dixi: In dimidio dierum
meorum vadam ad portas inferi.
I said: In the midst of my days I
shall go to the gates of hell.
Isaiah 38:10
You come from nothing, you’re
going back to nothing. What’ve
you lost? Nothing!
Eric Idle, ‘Always Look on
the Bright Side of Life’
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… and here when he comes out of the peat bog after three years like a mole in a hole after three years almost black no brown like a fresh horse turd he glistens in the May