Status Updates From Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

"And often I have asked myself, if I am not on this side of life where I am, how shall I be on the other side of the watery abyss where I am not, and how shall I perceive there what was not perceived here? It is possible that we are illusions in the light-streaked fog."

"He had found that there was no enduring foundation stone to this creation"

Midnight here, halfway point reached.

Can someone help me understand what I'm reading?

"Mr. Spitzer had forgotten at what hour his necessity had ceased"

"He was the journeyer between two worlds, both of which were non-existent."

"what could be sadder than to be born after the moon set and to die before the moon arose, and thus one would never know the moon or would know the moon only as one knew the unknown before one knew the known and would know the unknown after one knew not the known?"

"just when she was about to change beyond all future recognition."

Quite an understated way of describing death...

I'm trying to get exactly at 50% for the end of the year.

"truth seeming only another precarious organization of the fleeting and mistaken dream"
"perhaps it continually diminished, indefinitely divisible, and space was the illusion in a frameless mirror"
"Never had she believed that it would not be possible to live in a vanished time"
"And there were so many refractions, oblique passages from one medium of being into another"
"For to see all things would be to see nothing

'She had always seemed to give her attention to those who were not there. For she had walked in circles and semicircles, describing various elegant patterns in her most casual movements, measuring the distance from a blue brocade divan to a gilt and ivory chair as if this distance were a complicated problem in infinity or in eternity, as if, when she walked from room to room, she walked between two stars >"

"Cousin Hannah, who had urged her independence of man, that she should arise, take horse, make war, join her troops, fly her skirt upon some lonely mountain top as that great flag which would be seen by all the nations of the world and would strike pity and fear in all men’s hearts."

Almost precisely 400 pages in two months. I mostly stick to 8 pages a day, but someday gets skipped. Be done by March, if I keep up.