Topical Guide 765
Mark Dorset
Self Awareness
Life Lessons
Home: As a Place, As a Concept
What a Piece of Work I Am, Chapter 55:
“WHEN I STOOD HERE, that first night—in this place, just as you see it—when I finally had the new house to myself—I felt that I had turned a corner. […] I thought that the new house, my panopticon, would open me right up. I thought that I wouldn’t have any secrets, wouldn’t want to have any secrets, not even from myself. […] I came to understand that the final hiding places, the only real hiding places, are the head and heart,” […]
Peter Leroy, from “Her Scribe,” in Issue 18 of The Babbington Review:
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