unvolitional

Updated: May 21, 2025

It felt as though it were miles away from her, and too heavy to move. "Why, I'm dying now," she thought, and was surprised to find it such an ordinary, unvolitional thing to do. It was very good to do something unvolitional, very restful. Little snappings sounded in her ears, and distant crashings and thunders as of a storm perceived by a deaf man who can see and understand without hearing.

Leonora Eyles - Captivity