“‘We’re middle-aged and we’re young lovers standing besides a pond. We’re everything, all at once. Isn’t it remarkable?’” (Cunningham 67).
This is yet another example of how Richard is going crazy and losing his sense of time. He is remembering a moment from the past, but not just remembering it, he is reliving it. He says that he is in that moment, and the present one, too, and also believes thinks that are yet to happen have happened already. He does not take each moment as it comes and let it pass, but lets them all linger and become a confused mess.
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he is losing his sense of time, yes; though I wonder if Cunningham is suggesting this is unique to him or if it is the reality for all characters; could Clarissa be so concerned with time that she's missing the connections between the past and present?
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