The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and the Masterpiece
The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and the Masterpiece
By Anne Douglas Sedgwick
22 Apr, 2021
[...]panorama; he was covering his eyes; he was shuddering; he was stumbling back to the nest, wounded to death, there to fold himself in darkness, in oblivion, in love.-How near we are to the animal, he thought, smiling, with trembling lips, as he s
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[...]panorama; he was covering his eyes; he was shuddering; he was stumbling back to the nest, wounded to death, there to fold himself in darkness, in oblivion, in love.-How near we are to the animal, he thought, smiling, with trembling lips, as he saw the station slide outside the windows at last, saw the face of the station-master-he had never before known that the station-master was such a lovable person-he seemed so near the nest that he must be lovable-saw, beyond the flower-wreathed palings, the dog-cart waiting for him. But his deeper self rebuked[...]. Less