time: were those really fits of self-regard? I felt that she had brought them into the conversation not to make an impression on me, but to bring ease and

reassurance to her own soul. For such self-regard is bound up with everyday life, and everyday life is ordinarily free of heroism and valor, of calamity and tragedy, just as the

thoughts she expressed were the thoughts of ordinary everyday life.

"And she clung to those thoughts because she longed most ardently to persuade herself that her life