“But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.”
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
My thoughts on Hardy's sentence can be found here.
Author of LOST SON, a novel based on the life of Rainer Maria Rilke
“But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.”