The world is too much with us—William Wordsworth

My phone starts pinging; I watch as the notifications illuminate the screen, one after another. I last about two minutes before I’m compelled to open them. Six messages from O in belated response to a request I had sent for an analysis of a line that haunts me from Beckett’s Worstward Ho: ‘Something there badly not wrong’.

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