“Every corner, angle, crevice”

It is John Grimes’s fourteenth birthday. He is cleaning his family’s Harlem apartment, as he does every Saturday.

James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953).

I think of James Joyce’s “Eveline”: “She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from.”

Also from James Baldwin
“The burden is reality” : “Life is tragic” : “She was Sanctified holy” : “Somewhere in time” : “What we make happen”

[“He who is filthy”: Revelation 22:11.]