on-struggle

Updated: May 14, 2025

And she had a sense, too, that she had never really known life that her narrow existence had touched life at but a few minor points and that the great on-struggle of the world, the vast life of the race, the million-eddying evolution were all outside her limits. Now she was feeling the edge of new existences. The knowledge humbled, almost humiliated her.

James Oppenheim - The Nine-Tenths