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Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
Mon Aug 19 2002 at 18:59:50
The glittering gaudy cloth of day is lifted, full of other paths and other people and other times, and where it lay and blinded her with offices, lunch, customers, and walking only to reach somewhere now the brightness is dispelled.
In dusk the way is clearer. Rose, tree, and stone awaken, drink in the murmuring dusklight; and some witchery of the heart sees new paths in narrow streets, to her own past and future, leads Jenny to where she belongs.
It s hard to work out. They don t tell their secret easily. The decisions are Jenny s: the love is hers, and his, the future together is theirs, and the witching murmuration of graceful Georgian buildings cannot lead an uncertain couple through the daylight details of a life and home together. A lot of it needs review in that sharp glare. But here amid the dusk world, this is why she stays in the narrow streets, feeding on those atmospheres and encha