The Diary Volume 3 - Monday 2 August 1926
"Arnold Bennett says that the horror of marriage lies in its 'dailiness'. All
acuteness of relationship is rubbed away by this. the truth is more like this.
Life - say 4 days out of 7 - becomes automatic; but on the 5th day a bead of
sensation (between husband & wife) forms, wh. is all the fuller & more sensitive
because of the automatic customary unconscious days on either side. That is to
say the year is marked by moments of great intensity. Hardy's 'moments of
vision'. How can a relationship endure for any length of time except under these
conditions?."
I concur with Woolf rather than Bennett on this one. Having been married for
over 36 years myself I have experienced both the automatic customary and
unconscious days as well as the moments of great intensity.
DK
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