'I'm sorry for the long silence, but you can imagine what desperate packings occupied our lives, what desperate unpackings again to retrieve things prematurely packed, what form-fillings and cupboard emptyings, what rendings of the heart, what rentings of the house, what injections and dejections, what forwardings and backwardings, what helpful briefings, what unhelpful longings, what second thoughts and first impressions.'
Michael Frayn
The Trick of It
Perhaps searching over the past two weeks for somewhere to live wasn't quite as dramatic or traumatic as the experience Michael Frayn puts his characters through, but this short paragraph, or rather long sentence, contains the juxtaposition of practical headaches with emotional heartaches that moving house entails.
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