… incapacity & timidity always prevented my mingling in the nightly conversations of Diodati – they were as it were entirely tête-a-tête between my Shelley & Albe & thus as I have said – when Albe speaks & Shelley does not answer, it is as thunder without rain, The form of the sun without heat or light, as any familiar object might be shorn of its dearest & best attribute – & I listen with an unspeakable melancholy – that is not yet all pain. –

Mary Shelley’s journal entry, on Shelley and Byron (October 1822)
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8 months ago on September 21, 2012 at 05:25pm
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