Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence? One might almost say that the air, the invisible air, is full of unknowable Forces, whose mysterious presence we have to endure. I wake up in the best of spirits, with an inclination to sing. Why? I go down by the edge of the water, and suddenly, after walking a short distance, I return home wretched, as if some misfortune were awaiting me there. Why? Is it a cold shiver which, passing over my skin, has upset my nerves and given me low spirits? Is it the form of the clouds, or the tints of the sky, or the colors of the surrounding objects which are so changeable, that has troubled my thoughts as they passed before my eyes? Who can tell? Everything that surrounds us, everything that we see without looking at it, everything that we touch without knowing it, everything that we handle without feeling it, everything that we meet without clearly distinguishing it, has a rapid, surprising, and inexplicable effect upon us and upon our senses, and, through them, on our ideas and on our being itself.
How profound that mystery of the Invisible…
~Guy de Maupassant
4 comments:
I like how that was almost a year to the date the letter was written. Did you just find it then post it or was it planned? I'l assume the later...
I assume this comment (by whomever made it) was meant for the Dr. Burks letter. If that is the case, then I'll add that the letter was actually written just over 2 years ago. It was only planned so far as this time of the year got me thinking about end of school years past.
If this comment actually was meant in response to "Le Horla," then I have no idea what you, oh anonymous person, are talking about.
fyi...Comment links for each post are at the end of that post.
excuse the comment prior, I like how it was almost 2 years to the day we penned the document. We still should have signed it in blood. Either way the score still remains: Good Guys 1, Harding 0
Of course. Good always triumphs over evil; just like in the movies.
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