If I say that I have done something but haven’t yet–for sometimes I rush ahead, tie up loose ends to accommodate a conversation or to pass over what I consider inconsequential–it’s most important that I approach in the future what I have yet to do; this is a fitting challenge to myself, my own sense of commitment and promising, as well as a fitting correction of the initial omission. If the omitted remains omitted, that is, if the language is never learned or the book is never read, if the promise is never kept either in the past or in the deep future, then–then there is only one word for the omission, unless a mere dream is sometimes enough to fulfill a promise, unless a dream is sometimes all a person can claim as his own.
Love the Dust 