“But I feel overwhelmed with the everyday things that insist on my attention. And under-whelmed.”

“I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this medium average person. A little tired, a little sad, but not falling apart.”

“The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of items, an I myself was one such item...the things in the world did not necessarily cause my overwhelming feelings; the feelings were inside me, beneath my skin, behind my ribs, withing my skull. They were even, to some extent, under my control.”

“People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions.”

“But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.”

“For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday”