"The wretchedness of moving is like losing a skin - one is in fact losing a whole set of circumstances and things one takes for granted, all very simple, but by their immediate relation to the way you live very influential - bed, food, noises, warmth and so on. Deprived of these at a blow and thrust into another set, one feels as if skined and clad in a coarse shirt. Of course this new shirt of circumstances becomes one's skin in time. But until it has one feels, as I say, wretched, and I don't intend to minimize this!"
Philip Larkin
