vw Waves part six middle age

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clear- cut and unequivocal I am too

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there it stands, my name

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yet a vast inheritance of experience

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is packed in me

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if I deviate, glancing this way or that way

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I shall fall like snow and be wasted

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there is no respite here, no shadow made of quivering leaves, or alcove to which

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one can retreat from the sun, to sit, with a lover, in the cool of the evening

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the weight of the world is on

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our shoulders

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this is life; Mr Pretice at four; Mr Eyres at four-thirty

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I like to hear the soft sound of the lift and the thud with which it stops on my landing

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if I press on I will inherit a chair and a rugs place in Surrey with glass houses,

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and some rare conifer, melon or flowing tree which other merchants will envy

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Percival has died ( he died in Egypt; he died in Greece;

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all deaths are one death)

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Susan has children; Neville mounts rapidly

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to conspicuous heights

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The clouds change perpetually over our

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houses

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I do this, do that, and again do this

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and then that

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I am no longer January, May or any other season, but I am all spun to a fine

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thread round the cradle, wrapping in a cocoon made of my own blood the delicate limbs of my baby

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Sleep, I say, and feel within me uprush some wilder, darker violence, so that I would fell down with one blow any

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intruder, any snatcher, who would break into this room and wake the sleeper

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whether it is summer or winter I no longer know by the moor grass, and the heath flower;

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only the steam on the window pane or the frost on the window pane

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sleep I say desiring sleep to fall like a blanket of down and cover these

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weak limbs; demanding life

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pass by, making of my own body a hollow, a warm

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shelter for my child to sleep in

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[Susan] so life fills my veins

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so life pours through my limbs

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[Susan] so I am drive forward until

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I could cry

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yet more will come

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more children; more cradles; more baskets in the kitchen and hams ripening; and onions glistening; more beds of lettuce and potatoes

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[jinny] people are too soon gone

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let us catch them

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[Jinny] I am now past thirty, perilously like a mountain goat leaping from crag to crag

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I do not settle long anywhere; I do not attach myself to one person in particular

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we have between us scores of children from both sexes, whom we are educating, going to see at school (…)

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and bringing up to inherit our houses

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th activity is endless. and tomorrow it begins again; tomorrow

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we make Saturday. some will take train for France others ship for India

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life comes and life goes, we make life

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so you say

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but we who live in the body

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see with the body’s imagination

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I see rocks in bright sunshine. I cannot take these facts into some cave and shading my eyes grade their

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yellows blues umbers into one substance

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[jinny] I drop all of these facts- diamonds, withered hands, china pots and the rest of it

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as a monkey drops nuts from its naked paws

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I cannot tell you if life is this or that. I am going to push out into the heterogeneous crowd. I am going to be buffeted;

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to be flung down, among men, like a ship on the sea

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[jinny] for my body, my companion, which is sending its signals through the back ‘No’, the golden ‘come’ in rapid running

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arrows of sensations, beckons

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someone moves. did I raise my arm? did I look? did my yellow scarf with the strawberry spots float a signal?

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he has broken from the wall. he follows. I am pursued through the forest

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[jinny] one has pierced me

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one has driven deep within me

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‘why look’ says neville, ‘at the clock ticking on the mantle piece?

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time passes, yes. and er grow old.

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[Neville] but to sit with you, alone with you, here in London, in this fire lit room, you there

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I here, is all

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[Neville] I think those are books against the wall, and that a curtain, that perhaps an armchair

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but when you come everything changes. the cups and saucers changed when you came this morning

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[Neville] there can be no doubt, I thought, pushing aside the newspaper, that means our lives, unsightly as they are

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put on splendour and have meaning only under the eyes of God

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[Neville] but can this

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last? I though to myself I said to myself, by a lion in Trafalgar Square, by the Lion seen once and forever

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[Neville] so I re-visit my past life scene by scene

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there is an elm tree, there lies Percival. forever and ever I swore

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[Neville] but these meetings, these partings

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finally destroy us

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[Nevile] now this room seems to me central, something scooped out of eternal night. outside lines twist and intersect, but round us, wrapping us about

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here we are centred. here we can be silent, o speak without raising our voices

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[Neville] to follow the dark paths of the mind and enter the past, to visit books

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to brush aside their branches and break off some fruit

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[Neville] I want someone to sit beside after the days pursuit and all its anguish

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after its listings, and its writings and its waitings, and its suspicions

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[Neville] after quarrelling and reconciliation

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I need privacy- to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order

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for I am as neat as

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my cat in habits

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[n] we must oppose the waste and deformity of the world, its crowds eddying

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round and round disgorged and trampling

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everything must be done to

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rebuke the horror of this deformity

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but you are not Ajax or Percival. they did not

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scratch their foreheads with your precise gesture

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you

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are you

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you are you. that is what consoles me for the lack of many things- I am ugly, I am weak- and the depravity of the world, a

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and the flight of youth and Percival’s death, and the bitterness and recoup and envies innumerable

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but if one day you do not come after breakfast, if one day I see you in some looking glass perhaps looking for another (…)

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I shall- for there is no end to the folly of the human heart- seek another, find another, you.

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meanwhile, let us abolish the ticking of times

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clock with one blow. come closer