'Everything breathes again
The tablecloth is white'
(Rene Cazelles, de terre et d'envolee, 1953 quoted in Bachelard, below)
'It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality'
(Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space p. 61)
home: a village or town, a dwelling place, house, abode, the fixed residence of a family or household, the dwelling in which one habitually lives or which one regards as one’s proper abode, the place of one’s dwelling and nurturing, with its associations, with references to the grave or future state, place region or state to which one properly belongs, in which one’s affections centre, where one finds rest, refuge or satisfaction, a place where one’s ancestors dwelt, the seat, centre or native habitat, an institution providing refuge or rest, in games, the place in which one is free from attack, the goal…
(OE 3rd ed)
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