การอ่านวรรณกรรมอังกฤษAnother day of 1984 happiness
WIWAT LERTWIWATWONGSA
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This year is the first year Malee must live alone since Suree died. Suree
died eight years ago but this is the first year that she is no longer here.
The New Year is coming, slow and bleak. Malee doesn’t know what
she wants, of a lover, a journey far away or a chat with her dead friend,
but she has none of these. There is only a mysterious emptiness of
some kind which sticks to her like a spot on a shirt that won’t fade in
the wash or the stains of time on pillows, on curtains or in tile grooves
on the floor. As days pass the stains grow darker while the material
fades, just as life fades away while loneliness takes shape in her.
Loneliness is an incurable disease, Suree told Malee. She said so