things-ever-present

Updated: June 13, 2025

Now, these things-ever-present realities as they were filled her eyes and mind. The more circumscribed became her state, the more entrancing seemed this other. And now poverty threatened to seize her entirely and to remove this other world far upward like a heaven to which any Lazarus might extend, appealingly, his hands. So, too, the ideal brought into her life by Ames remained.

Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie