No Longer at Ease

Book Diary 2020 (112 books items)

" A real tragedy takes place in a corner, in an untidy spot, to quote W. H. Auden. The rest of the world is unaware of it. Like that man in a Handful of Dust who reads Dickens to Mr.Todd. There is no release for him. When the story ends he is still reading. The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace. The most horrible sight in the world cannot put out th"