Sublime

The crowd that is within him—small boy, father, and husband—rage and grieve together.

Macomber

wounded child archetype

For days, he stood in the cold shower of her imagined anger, which he felt he entirely deserved. Not only for having left her pregnant and in the lurch, so that he might go off in a failed pursuit of an impossible revenge; but for having never returned, never telephoned or dropped a line, never once thought of her—so he imagined that she imagined—i

Before that he’d edged up next to craziness but when I entered the house to help Mother, I felt he had given over his whole being to it.

Hugo watched them with the distant sympathy of a young man who knows what he’s doing is stupid only to the people who love him, therefore of no consequence.

atavistic,”