An end & a beginning

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”

T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”

“My New Year’s Eve Toast:
to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies,
loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real,
the army of memories, with which I do battle
— may they never give me peace.”

Patricia Highsmith
(New Year’s Eve, 1947)

an #auto_post 5 seconds into the New Year!