Tuesday, March 12, 2024

I wonder if

Excerpted from Quartet by Jean Rhys, ©1929:

Marya lay very still listening to the hooting of the cars outside.  She felt sharply alive but very tired, so languid as to be almost incapable of movement.  A profound conviction of the unreality of everything possessed her.  She thought:  "I wonder if taking opium is like this."

And that reminded me of this:

 

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