the journey to emmaus

Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
-But who is that on the other side of you?

from The Wasteland, TS Eliot.

What is the heart? What does it feel?

She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from family and friends what the heart is and what it feels.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce.