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Carol
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Advice? Surely they needed advice? Of course they needed advice; she reviewed, in a flash, the whole unsatisfactory condition of Greystones, of her state of mind, of life itself. How can we stop the drain flooding whenever it rains? Why do I have to feel guilty because my mother has died? How can I achieve a comforting complacency?
— Jul 14, 2025 04:42PM
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Carol
is 51% done
He did not want to be young again – that time had had particular and transcendent horrors – but the thought of being any older filled him with panic. He could not imagine finding tranquillity of soul in old age; if he could only be allowed to mark time for a while all might yet be well, one might suddenly achieve equilibrium, certainty, serenity. There would still be possibilities. Hopes.
— Jul 16, 2025 12:13AM
Carol
is 43% done
‘Edward, are you with me or are you not? I sometimes wonder.’
Only too much so, alas. Only too much so.
— Jul 15, 2025 07:28PM
Only too much so, alas. Only too much so.
Carol
is 31% done
She was a woman without vision or curiosity; her distaste for books was equalled only by her dislike of people. … Helen, marvelling at Joyce's capacity for self-protection, often wondered at her choice of career. It had something to do with order, she decided; Joyce mistrusted books for their content, but liked the way they could be marshalled. The readers were simply an unlooked-for hazard.
— Jul 14, 2025 06:12PM
