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Grief (part 1)

In my dream, my parents said that Squiggy had been shrieking all afternoon during my absence, as if fending off invisible attackers. But they were not invisible. I could see them—long black rats with ugly snouts and sharp claws. The claws were clamped onto my cat’s fur and he was wailing, yowling in agony andContinue reading “Grief (part 1)”

“Time Passes”: Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse is the reason I love Virginia Woolf. It chronicles grief, consciousness, memory, how these are tied intimately to a place, and how people handle change over time. The first section of the book, “The Window,” sets up the relationships among the characters, traces the geography (both human and physical) surrounding the narrative,Continue reading ““Time Passes”: Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”