M U L L A duel of ideas

The witness who keeps going

Czesław Miłosz  vs  Ada Limón

Miłosz lived through occupation, exile, decades of disregard, and continued to write — believing the witness's job is to persist. Limón writes from a different geography but the same posture: the day requires you to notice, and notice, and notice. Both refuse to stop looking, even when the looking does not pay.

What are you still witnessing — without payoff, without audience — and how would the day go if you stopped?

Whose side are you on?

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