"A Vision of the World"
junio 25, 2009
But my wife was sad.
"What's the matter, darling?" I asked.
"I just have this terrible feeling that I'm a character in a television situation comedy," she said. "I mean, I'm nice-looking, I'm well dressed, I have humorous and attractive children, but I have this terrible feeling that I'm in black and white and that I can be turned off by anybody. I just have this terrible feeling that I can be turned off." Mi wife is often sad because her sadness is not a sad sadness, sorry because her sorrow is not a crushing sorrow. She grieves because her grief is not an acute grief, and when I tell her that this sorrow over the inadequacies of her sorrow may be a new hue in the spectrum of human pain, she is not consoled. Oh, I sometimes think of leaving her. I could conceivably make a life without her and the children, I could get along without the companionship of my friends, but I could not bring myself to leave my lawns and gardens, I could not part from the proch screens that I have repaired and painted.
Etiquetas: John Cheever
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