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To the lighthouse (I can’t come up with a better or more poetic title than that)

December 30, 2016 by tillie 1 Comment

 “What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.” In the summer, a family travels to a house on the top of a hill with the view of a lighthouse. A woman and her son look out to the lighthouse. He wants to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Mathildehoeg, ReadWomen, tothelighthouse, Virginia Woolf

tillie's CBR8 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Mathildehoeg, ReadWomen, tothelighthouse, Virginia Woolf ·
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