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I was chatting with a classmate on facebook that I hadn't talked with in quite a while and all of a sudden a random message appeared in our chat box that neither of us had written. However, it was quite well written, so I wanted to share it, both on the off chance that a) someone recognizes it and b) just because it's kind of cool:
"while I can gear myself up to do a novel, letters, real-life communications, are too much for me." Why? "Because I have become such a solitary...a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key." Walter Pater had a phrase for this characteristically modern dilemma, "the thick wall of personality"-a sense of the heroic difficulty of disclosing, not the superficial trivialities of ordinary discourse, epistolary or otherwise, but the true contents of your soul.
"while I can gear myself up to do a novel, letters, real-life communications, are too much for me." Why? "Because I have become such a solitary...a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key." Walter Pater had a phrase for this characteristically modern dilemma, "the thick wall of personality"-a sense of the heroic difficulty of disclosing, not the superficial trivialities of ordinary discourse, epistolary or otherwise, but the true contents of your soul.