She felt as if things were moving past her as she lay stretched on the bed under the single sheet. But it’s not landscape any longer, she thought; it’s people’s lives, their changing lives.

“Oh, to awake from dreaming!”

“But let other pens treat of sex and sexuality; we quit such odious subjects as …”

“You were given a sharp, acute, uncomfortable grain..; yet in absence, in the mo…”

“The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least…”