Writer Helen Garner, talking about a difficult time in her life, described a feeling that there was a column of darkness behind her, ‘of tremendous but benign force’, waiting for her to turn around and acknowledge it. She never did, she said because she believed that if she did so she would have had to go down on her knees to it.
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