Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.
Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.
As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.