Auto-plagiarism, or the quoting or citing of one's own self, is not something
I would recommend that one do on a regular basis. Yet, every now and again,
it is hard not too resort to one's own former scribblings, and that for an all
too obvious reason: it is difficult to (attempt to) be clever or insightful time
and again, especially in a different fashion… Anyway, here it goes: “…soon
thereafter the men too commenced to depart, commenced to depart whither
rests one of the most enduring mysteries of the realm. Alone, immortal, at
first they had essayed to live off fishing and in dreams but had one day forgotten
Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter and had vanished into the Fifth
Season, a place outside of time or a time devoid of a palpable place which is
said to have been responsible for inspiring Dante’s description of the Purgatory...
