Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the center which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.

“The human frame being what it is, heart, body, and brain all mixed together, an…”

“Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ev…”

“Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is una…”

“What people had shed and left--a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded skir…”