"It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . . . Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness."

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Source : Coleman Dowell (1974). “Mrs. October was Here”, p.214, New Directions Publishing

Coleman Dowell

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