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The road reached out ahead of her, empty of traffic, darkly grey between the green verges, its width neatly defined at every bend by a run of white lines in the centre. She could have been quite alone on it, as though it were there for her only. Behind her, clear in the driving-mirror and yet curiously diminished, it reached away again in reverse.
— Mar 12, 2025 09:19PM
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Oh, the past is disagreeable all right, she thought, no wonder we'd rather not know. And it has this way of jumping out at you from behind corners when you're least expecting it, so that you have to spend time and energy readjusting to it, redigesting it. Or it hangs around your neck like an albatross, so that there is no putting it aside ever, even if you wanted to.
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‘This summer,’ said Don, ‘has been a bit of a strain, hasn't it?’ Don, of course, is not given to emotion. The remark is made in as cool and level a tone as he might, not to promote undue alarm or anxiety, point out that the neighbouring house is on fire, or that war appears to be imminent. It might mean anything, or nothing.
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So far as I am concerned – have been concerned – he existed to be my father, and now one finds that was not the case at all, or only a small part of it.
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