Forgotten, but not yet gone.
Progress is the insult done by each generation on the previous one.
(The first line is from Our Like WIll Not Be There Again: Notes from the West of Ireland by Lawrence Millman (1975). The second line paraphrases a line from The Trouble With Being Born by Emil Cioran (1973) that was used as an epigram to one of Millman’s chapters.)
“The Blasket people call their departure from their island “the vanishing.” … In a sense, they are living beyond their own disappearance.’
