the dark year

[jazzfish]

Noting for posterity:

So I call it in my mind: the dark year.

To try to tell it is like trying to tell the passage of a sleepless night. Nothing happens. One thinks, and dreams briefly, and wakes again; fears loom and pass, and ideas won't come clear, and meaningless words haunt the mind, and the shudder of nightmare brushes by, and time seems not to move, and it's dark, and nothing happens.

--Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts

Le Guin's speaking of grief, there, but it's also the best description of depression I've seen since Dar Williams's "After All".

Comments

[wohali]

Wow, I have to agree. I haven't read that LeGuin story yet, but now I am sure to.

And YAY Dar Williams! I have seen her twice in concert at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival!