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“The possibilities of pleasure seemed that morning so enormous and so various that to have only a moth’s part in life, and a day moth’s at that, appeared a hard fate, and his zest in enjoying his meagre opportunities to the full, pathetic” Virginia Woolf, The Death of A Moth.
"as though to be thrown into the air”
as though to be:
whole, coterminous
with a morning
as though to be:
the death of
this trapped
as though to be:
a hybrid creature.
Neither nor,
"sombre like their own species."
as though to be:
a “present specimen”.
as though to be:
before us.
as though to be:
distracted (and writing so)
as though to be:
thought about
and forgotten
elsewhere
as though to be:
both with
and without that
hope
as though to be:
in difficulty of
keeping eyes
"turned upon"
the screen
and others
as though to be:
here,
in volume
as though to be:
shown fluttering
from side to side
as though to be:
seeing in interiors
compartments
as though to be:
compelled
to move
within
the pane
as though to be:
fragile energy
resisting
force
"What he could
do he did"
as though to be:
unsure of the neutrality
of a pronoun
as though to be:
thread of vital
light become
visible
as though to be:
without body
in failure.
as though to be:
thought itself
forgotten
later
as though to be:
