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“It is the practice of the present that turns the past upon its axis, not some immanent telos.”
Terry Eagleton, Walter Benjamin or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism, Chapter 3, NLB., 1981, p. 51.

September — Cry For You:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uc9vAF5A7U

“If one has to take existence as it is, would it not be best if one were told how it is? 
What does it mean: a deceiver?”
Søren Kierkegaard, Repetition, 11 Octobre.

Carver expected an afterlife within Aveline; not if Samantha has something to say about it! 
The unexpected rescuer runs right onto attack of the Pride demon whom Mother succours. 

Lady Gaga — G.U.Y.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwweQqPH7qg

“This man’s sufferings appal me because they are unnecessary. — That’s great art, nothing obvious in it. — I laugh when they weep, I weep when they laugh."
[Das Leid dieses Menschen erschüttert mich, weil es doch einen Ausweg für ihn gäbe. — Das ist große Kunst: da ist nichts selbstverständlich. — Ich lache über den Weinenden, ich weine über den Lachenden.]
Bertolt Brecht, Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic, Part Two Exile Years, Old versus New Theatre, 1964 [the dramatic theatre’s spectator says: ‘— Just like me.’]

Samantha already bears burden of Malcolm, who was murdered by selfsame Pride demon.
Her compendium of family treasures out not to be relinquished to preposterous intrigant.