born to a deaf asbestos salesman

"I feel...what?
A restlessness. 
A feeling to be over the woods at the end of the street and far away, away. And at the same time I have a kind of homesickness for where I am.
Is that possible?
I have a feeling that something, somewhere has been left unresolved, that some secret thing in the air around me is still waiting to be discovered."

 SPIES Michael Frayn

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