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[midday_volery]

"Camus has said in his Carnets that the lives of others appear always, from the outside, to have the completion our own dismally lacks. Only when we understand this as a projection -- that other lives, too, are unclosed and contingent -- do we approach maturity. Alice felt immature. She felt she was a spy in the cold." Gail Jones, Dreams of

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[sonikchic]

thank you. i misread camus to my own ends, too. your apt clarity leaves me with envy, breathing it out now :)

[midday_volery]

must hastily disown the clarity of expression - it comes from Gail Jones's book 'Dreams of Sleeping'. i think you would really enjoy it.