The Cat’s Table
“‘You would not want to know them, they are— I am surrounded by their darkness, the incessant danger. Clouds crash against each other, loudly. Does this happen to you?’We were in London, some years later.‘No,’ I say. ‘I rarely dream. I don’t seem to. Perhaps they emerge as daydreams.’‘Every night I go into them, and I wake up afraid.’What was strange about this fear, almost guilt, was Emily’s ease with others during the day. It felt to me there was never darkness in her, there was instead the de...sire to comfort. Who or what caused this darkness in her? Now and then there would be a sense of separateness, when she seemed to give up on the world around her. And at those times she had an unreachable face. So for a while there was her ‘distance’. But when she returned to you, it was a gift.Early on she had confessed a pleasure in danger. She was right about that. It was there like a joker, something that did not quite fit in her nature. There were always to be discoveries about her, some of them as small as that wink on the pier in Aden when she wanted me to guess at something.MoreLess
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