![]() Very early, the glory and the murderousness of sexual relations became central to life as she would ever know it. She had known from the time she was young that men and women, especially men, fear their own sensuality that this fear cuts deep, slicing through mind, spirit, and conventional decency. Such a destiny was the one meted out to the richly febrile writer Jean Rhys, whose gift for language and form made her stories and novels a compelling embodiment of the permanently forlorn. ![]() For such unfortunates, the aloneness is more than a penalty, it is a humiliation humiliation is degrading degradation induces fear and rage fear and rage are doubly isolating. Most of us make some headway with the struggle, but some of us get nowhere with it we remain people who are at home nowhere, with no one, feeling like strangers to ourselves and others all our lives. ![]() As the poet has it, we are born strangers and afraid in a world we never made and, he might have added, spend a large part of our lives negotiating that original aloneness. ![]()
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