The Awakening

'Whatever we may do or attempt,
despite the embrace and the transports of love,the hunger of lips,
we are always alone. I have dragged you out into the night in the vain hope of a moment's escape from the horrible solitude which overpowers me. But what is the use! I speak and you answer me, and still each of us is alone; side by side but alone.'
-Guy de Maupassant, Solitude
Kate Chopin, The Awakening








(downtown Calgary, CDA- Aug 30, 2009)