Thursday, June 16, 2022
Withdrawing to the Vanishing Point
M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992), Map of Another Town: A Memoir of Provence (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964), p. 10:
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It is mainly a question of withdrawing to the vanishing point from the consciousness of the people one is with, before one actually leaves. It is invaluable at parties, testimonial dinners, discussions of evacuation routes in California towns, and coffee-breaks held for electioneering congressmen …