“If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. “
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Poet
“If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. “
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Poet
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A melancholic pragmatist with a wide streak of mischief and an active imagination that turns into novels.