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i am finding this really challenging to understand prose-wise. maybe i’m just easily distracted…

Feeling overwhelmed but we getting through this.
Fav Quote so far:
“But what I would have been remembering would have been supplied by my conscious memory…and since the information this mode of memory supplies about the past contains nothing of the past… It was all quite dead for me”

Długo nie umiałam wciągnąć się w tę książkę, a teraz za to nie mogę przestać jej czytać

Długo nie umiałam wciągnąć się w tę książkę, a teraz za to nie mogę przestać jej czytać

That hateful staircase, up which I always went so sadly, gave out a smell of varnish which had, as it were, absorbed and crystallised the special quality of sorrow that I felt each evening, and made it perhaps even crueller to my sensibility because, when it assumed this olfactory guise, my intellect was powerless to resist it.