It is a moment that is found in the image but lost to the present: "Eternally trapped in the present, we are doomed to perpetually walk 'in front' of the past".
But "us" now could also mean us — perpetually anxious civilians walking to work, sitting in office buildings, riding public transportation, attending sporting events, marching in parades, shopping at the mall, inhaling, swallowing, praying.
So you had the Villon and the Celan in mind, and, of course, the words of Crane and Whitman live within you so perpetually that just walking about the city they would come to you.
How perhaps it was not the grotesque that shook you but that the taxidermy embodied a death that won't finish, a death that dies perpetually as we walk past it to relieve ourselves.
Lola has — you guessed it — a wacky best friend, Alice (Ms. Lister-Jones), who bemoans her perpetually single state and is a walking anthology of semi-naughty quips, pop culture non-sequiturs and questionable behaviors.
There was a clutter of incidents – walking to and from school, perpetually overtaken by three students who would call out "Faggot", and feeling thankful for the days when they said nothing.
Doesn't everyone live and breathe to walk around perpetually exhausted?
The enclave is perpetually packed (when you walk in you'll be corralled in a holding area until a table opens up), and the whole vibe is part-apocalyptic, part-cozy, as though everyone had communally decided to converge in a cavernous Mad Max boîte from the future to draw sustenance from bites of unagi and several rounds of ginjo sake.
Walking into two classes of more than 30 hormone-infused and perpetually disengaged ninth graders literally breathless thanks to my status as a "floating" English teacher?
One recent Saturday afternoon, a perpetually impatient friend called to report that he was at that moment in the process of walking out of a well-reviewed, much-talked-about, sold-out musical.
