The Woman in the Water
1989; University of Iowa; Volume: 19; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.17077/0021-065x.3806
ISSN2330-0361
Autores ResumoPENELOPE IS THINKING: The night I am remembering marks the exact moment in my life when longing split off from desire.What is the difference be tween longing and desire?she thinks, and then she decides that longing is un connected with anything familiar or concrete, free-floating, she thinks, and smiles, but not, it would seem, with any pleasure.In her head, though twenty years have passed, more than half her life, it is as clear as it was back then: the black expanse of sky, brightly studded with stars, the blacker lake spreading out beyond them, lapping, lapping softly at the dusty shore, the dark thrust of pines behind them, and high above?thetrestle, blackest of all, crossing the arm of the lake, stern and ab solute against the unspeakable tenderness ofthat warm late summer night.
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