‘But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm. There is no steady, unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed graduations, and at the last one pause…’
Sunday, December 08, 2013
Adam Phillips, Missing Out
'Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be, among many other things, our most violent form of nostalgia.’ (59)
