People · 1931
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
— Virginia Woolf • The Waves
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Someone is taking stock of getting older: old wants have faded, and friends have gone, some through death and some for a far more mundane reason, being unable to cross the street. The dry twist makes drifting apart feel both funny and sad.
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