Nor can I suppose that when Mrs. Casaubon is discovered in a fit of weeping six weeks after her wedding, the situation will be regarded as tragic. Some discouragement, some faintness of hearts at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual.Does this make sense to you? No? Never mind, let's continue.
That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. Fuck it.
