Status Updates From A Sra. Dalloway

peter walsh is back!

"Brief, broken, often painful as their actual meetings had been, (...) the effect on his life was immeasurable. (...) You were given a sharp, acute, uncomfortable grain – the actual meeting; horribly painful as often as not; yet in absence, in the most unlikely places, it would flower out, open, shed its scent, let u touch, taste, look about you, get the whole feel of it and understanding, after years of lying lost."

"It was to explain the feeling they had of dissatisfaction; not knowing people; not being known. For how could they know each other? You met every day; then not for six months, or years. It was unsatisfactory, they agreed, how little one knew people. (...) she felt herself everywhere; not 'here, here, here' (...). So that to know her, or any one, one must seek out the people who completed them; even the places.(...)"

"(...) it is the privilege of loneliness; in privacy one may do as one chooses. One might weep if no one saw. (...) Partly for that reason, its secrecy, complete and inviolable, he had found life like an unknown garden, full of turns and corners, surprising, yes; really it took one's breath away, these moments; (...)"