I believe in reincarnation. I have no choice but to believe, because of visions, memories, and awarenesses I've had. That's what this quatrain is about. In the middle of the night I awoke and scrawled a word that was new to me, but I knew that it was supposed to be Latin, and I knew that the meaning was "to shine brightly." I wrote "collusco, colluscere," under the influence of Spanish construction (though the word does not exist, so far as I know, in Spanish. The colloquial form of the Latin word is "colluceo, collucére." The official form is "conluceo, conlucére." I did not know the word (in either form) in this life. Now I know it, but it is purely a gift (and to me a very significant one) from the past.
The Latin phrase at the end of the quatrain (which cannot be well handled by Google Translate) means "like the sun, unwrapped I will shine."
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I believe in reincarnation. I have no choice but to believe, because of visions, memories, and awarenesses I've had. That's what this quatrain is about. In the middle of the night I awoke and scrawled a word that was new to me, but I knew that it was supposed to be Latin, and I knew that the meaning was "to shine brightly." I wrote "collusco, colluscere," under the influence of Spanish construction (though the word does not exist, so far as I know, in Spanish. The colloquial form of the Latin word is "colluceo, collucére." The official form is "conluceo, conlucére." I did not know the word (in either form) in this life. Now I know it, but it is purely a gift (and to me a very significant one) from the past.
The Latin phrase at the end of the quatrain (which cannot be well handled by Google Translate) means "like the sun, unwrapped I will shine."
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