It Is With The Approach Of Winter

But It Is True That Sometimes An Enveloping Darkness Aids One To Clearer Vision; As In A Panorama Building, For Example, Where The Obscurity About The Entrance Prepares One Better For The Climax, And Gives The Scene Depicted A More Real And Vivid Appearance.

My Sister And My Brother, Of Whom I Have Not Spoken Before, Were Considerably Older Than I; It Seemed Almost As If We Belonged To Different Generations.

Unlike Most Other Children, - Especially Unlike Those Of Today - Who Are Eager To Become Men And Women As Speedily As Possible, I Had A Terror Of Growing Up, Which Became More And More Accentuated As I Grew Older.

It Is With The Approach Of Winter That Cats...wear Their Richest Fur And Assume An Air Of Sumptuous And Delightful Opulence.

I Recall Feeling An Almost Delicious Terror When One Day I Found Myself Alone In The Midst Of Tall June Grasses That Grew High As My Head. But Here The Secret Working Of Self Consciousness Is Almost Too Entangled With The Things Of The Past For Me To Explain It.