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little oases in the desert of time

little oases in the desert of time - Richmond Generating Station

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All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men.

~John Alfred Spender, The Comments of Bagshot
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Portside Power Plant (a pseudonym), 2009. Photograph by Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America


Also in: Richmond Generating Station

a certain kind of emptiness
echoes from the life behind
rendered drab by the shadows of time
of forms assembled in the light
locked from the inside
counterpoint to our fundamental failures
a symbol for the century
the trail of the past
in things continually vanishing
hard to say
what i wanted