the first turn of the screw settles all debts by siobahn published on 2023-11-20T08:41:16Z it is worst when i have the realization in the (continued) presence of others, that i am really and truly alone, an island of some sort, impregnable from all Outside, that i must at once accept with grace and dignity my state of constant interiority, only achieved by being alone, that i must do this, or else someone will know as it happens