There I realized that Auden was right after all.
"There I realized, as I had never done before, the need for you in a world where such things are: and I blessed you in the silence of that death chamber," Main wrote.
"There, I realized why people say that politics is violent".
There, I realized how much I believed the threadbare lie the straightened hair was the only way to express beauty.
There, I realized two things: 1) that I was beginning to lose my mind, and 2) that the world was passing me by.
Sitting there, I realized that the experience had mesmerized me.
"From the minute I got there, I realized I wasn't really taking pictures," Ms. Larsen said.
But, interestingly, when I got there I realized that fitting in was no longer conforming.
"After one year there, I realized that it was impossible to get rich there," he said.
Even if my old boss had been there, I realized, he probably wouldn't have recognized me.
"But when I got there, I realized there really is no finish line," he said.
