+he.did.not.want.to.die+

Oct 02, 2003 10:24

well, since i have nothing else better to write, here is a piece from Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway."

Oh I am feeling oh so "angsty" ha.

"There remained only the window, the large Bloomsbury-lodging house window, the tiresome, the troublesome, and rather melodramatic business of opening the window and throwing himself out. It was their idea of tragedy, not his or Rezia's (for she was with him). Holmes and Bradshaw like that sort of thing. (He sat on the sill.) But he would wait til the very last moment. He did not want to die. Life was good. The sun hot. Only human beings- what did they want? Coming down the staircase opposite an old man stopped and stared at him. Holmes was at the door.

'I'll give it you!"he cried,

and flung himself vigorously, violently down on to Mrs. Filmer's area railing."

The end to Peter.

[love]
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