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I miss Levin.

I feel a change come over myself when I am reading this. I tried to describe it to a friend the other day and got only as far as some topical details concerning the plot, but what I did not manage to say was: when I open the book, it’s as if I get a window into the very real life of Levin, Anna, and Oblonsky etc. and it is a solid thing which exists independent of my reading and is merely suspended until I return.

“The peculiar nature of female friendship, for me, is this mixture of sympathy and instruction: of a loving heart and a shrewd eye. And above all it offers and endless patience and curiosity, so that feelings that may be buried and yet irritating can be brought to light, explored, and, one hopes, dispersed. […A] kind of laundering of the soul” Sue Limb ‘Female Friendship’(1989)