People
I wish I could stand beside you at some window today and look out into the twilight and say nothing.
— Alexander Woollcott
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker longs for company without conversation: two people sharing a window and the fading light. The wish makes silence part of the closeness, rather than an absence to fill. Its ordinary setting gives the feeling an intimate scale, with togetherness expressed through very little happening.
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