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“Then I know that an awful black whirling chaos is just outside me, waiting to move into me. I must go to sleep quickly, before I become that chaos.”

(free women 2)
Lessing delivers the good old Joyce-like passivity and emotional paralysis of her protagonist so thoroughly. It is easily heard in her voice, not only her words but her tone as well, that she is numb, stuck, fragmented, detached…