Voyage in the Dark (1934) by Jean Rhys

pp. 25-26 -clothes, money, woodlice

p. 27 - “Money ought to be everybody’s. It ought to be like water.“

p. 31 - “I wanted to be black, I always wanted to be black. . . . Being black is warm and gay, being white is cold and sad.“

clocks. on her stockings. different shapes. stopped clock. confusion of time, temporality, past and present

wednesday november 17 (1909) followed shortly by sunday january 7 (1912). impossible-seeming timeline... confusion of time

p. 54 -colors, woodlice

p. 58 -taste of nothing, what is purity?

p. 72 -white, old, sad

p. 80 - “It’s unlucky to know you’re happy; it’s unlucky to say you’re happy.”

p. 82 -englishmen, women, climate

p. 95 - “The Welsh word for grief is hiraeth.”

p. 113 - “time sliding past you, like water running” -money ought to be like water

p. 120 -terrifying

p. 154 -cold as truth, cold as life

p. 166 -letter dated 1914. no sunday jan. 7 in 1914 or wednesday nov. 23 in 1913

p. 172 -no communication possible

p. 179 -everything was so exactly alike

p. 183 - "I hate people." - "I thought, 'Pain . . .'"