Monday, March 2, 2015

'Street Haunting'

"The hour should be evening and the season winter, for in winter the champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets are grateful. We are not then taunted as in the summer by the longing for shade and solitude and sweet airs from the hayfields. The evening hour, too, gives us the irresponsibility which darkness and lamplight bestow. We are no longer quite ourselves."

(Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth & Other Essays, 20)

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