Status Updates From Our Wives Under the Sea

Things continue. This is something I have always found: unfortunately, things go on.

The basic truth of the situation occurred to me only as if shouted across some great distance and barely heard. I felt afraid, of course – but, beneath this, still in some sense quietly removed. I suppose a body has to find a way to cope with panic.

I know now that this isn’t how it goes, that things beneath the surface are what have to move and change to cause the chain reaction higher up.