The past few months have been the most serene of his adult life. The megalopolis in his mind has quieted to a country road. He does his work, he eats his bread, and he sleeps with the knowledge that today hasn't added to the sum of human misery. For now at least it's peace of a kind he hadn't imagined himself worthy of receiving. Anthony Marra
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The author of this quote is a man named Sylvia Plath, who was a poet. She wrote this for her husband, the poet Ted Hughes. The passage is about how her husband had been living in a serene state of mind before his tragic death, and how she discovered it after his passing. In the passage, Sylvia Plath describes her husband as someone who had been living in a “megalopolis” or a large city.

This megalopolis is depicted as an over-crowded and often unpleasant place to live in. This gives you an idea of just how beautiful it can be to be able to go outside and enjoy nature and nature's blessings.

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