Apologia Diffidentis
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Writing gives the shy narrator a way to explain what conversation cannot express. Addressed to someone who has long shown him kindness, this reflective essay examines the strain of wanting companionship while fearing social contact. The opening recalls painful university years, when self-consciousness made ordinary friendships difficult and rebellious literature offered a refuge. A move to a remote hillside plantation in the East brings another setting: a bungalow, forests, distant plains and quiet nights beneath the stars.
Personal recollection broadens into a meditation on affection, nature and the life of the mind. In the middle passage, the narrator describes renewed sympathy and an ideal love that lends purpose to daily life, drawing on Plato and Dante to consider the endurance of such visions.
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Book facts
- Author
- O. M. Dalton
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 65
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Essays
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online