Power Cut

[poliphilo]

The power went off last night and stayed off until around three this afternoon.  I kept thinking "I'll have a shower now" or "I'll  watch some TV" or "I'll shred some papers to pass the time" and then realising that all these things were impossible. 

What I did do was finish Rose Macaulay's Dangerous Ages. It's another of her novels from the 1920s- and all about how frustrating it is to be a human being. I'd say she was depressed when she wrote it.

And now I'm catching up on all the cups of tea I missed earlier.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Whatever the cause, I found it a mildly depressing book. For all its incidental humour, it's steeped in a sense of the futility of human existence.

We should have held onto "undulating fever". It's a lovely turn of phrase.