dining room

is the place where the family eats while the kitchen is being painted.

The dining room is the place where the family eats while the kitchen is being painted.

is marked by the feeling of pleasure and stability because it occurs against the catastrophic background of universal chaos. The illusion of stability is created by a concerted effort to ignore the chaos one is imbedded in.

And it came to her that the pleasure and stability of dining rooms had always occurred against such a backdrop, against the catastrophic background of universal chaos; such moments of calm were things as fragile and transitory as soap bubbles, destined to burst almost as soon as they blew into existence. Groups of friends, rooms, streets, years, none of them would last. The illusion of stability was created by a concerted effort to ignore the chaos they were imbedded in. And so they ate, and talked, and enjoyed each other’s company; this was the way it had been in the caves, on the savannah, in the tenements and the trenches and the cities huddling under bombardment.

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dining room