“… for the moment, she hung suspended.”
December 31, 2007
12/31/07
“ a leaf or a contrivance of wires,
in the stairwell,
to be looked at from below.”
12/31/07
“The words (she was looking at the window) sounded as if they were floating like flowers on water out there, cut off from them all, as if no one had said them, but they had come into existence of themselves.”
December 30, 2007
12/30/07
“… there is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than this; yet it is also beautiful and necessary.”
12/30/07
“For what happened to her, especially staying with the Ramsays, was to be made to feel violently two opposite things at the same time; that’s what you feel was one; that’s what I feel, was the other …”
12/30/07
“How much they missed, after all, these very clever men! How dried up they did become, to be sure.”
12/29/07
“She had been admired. She had been loved. She had entered rooms where mourners sat.”
