Philip Larkin quote: I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that ...

I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that will eventually claim me: in other words, old age, incapacity, loneliness, death of others & myself...

~ Philip Larkin ~

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