virginia woolfe
...s keeping one of their annual festivities, soaring around the treetops, on a pleasant morning, in mid-September. 2. The moth is different from other species of moths, in the sense that this moth flies during the day, whereas most moths fly during the night, and this moth is filled with content with its life. 3. “What remained for him but to fly to a third corner and then to a fourth? That was all he could do, in spite of the size of the downs, the width of the sky, the far-off smoke of houses, and the romantic voice, now and then, of a steamer out at sea.” Compared to the environment at large, the moth’s environment is very limited. “The possibilities of pleasure seemed that morning so enormous and so various that to have only a moth’s part in life, and a day moth’s at that, appeared a hard fate, and his zest in enjoying ...