She finds this objectivity of hers, this clarity, almost more depressing than she can bear, not because there is anything hideous or repellant about this man but because he has now returned to the ordinary level, the level of things she can see, in all their amazing and complex particularity, but cannot touch.
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- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer, Poet
- Nationality: canadian
- Born: November 18, 1939
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