2023-10-15

My room which toward north  was full of broad  daylight. In some haste and confusion I recalled what day it was, and got up to draw the curtain and opened the window when I began to understand it was a saturday.The blue of the late autumn sky was rather bright and high and far,and covered with a few thin strands of white  clouds  like smoke and fog,  the sun  was shining over the tall  building  and spread the golden rays in several directions.

I devoted more leisure time than usual to my toilet, washed and combed meticulously until I was as fresh and immaculate as if I were about to pay a call on a conventional well-bred family with whom I  would have to look my best and be on my best behavior, and as I  went through  the processes of dressing  I listened  to the  merry and brisk beating of my heart.

How bright it was outside, I would have felt better than anytime before or after.