Greene's ridicule of his tragedy hurt him as much as the Princess' ridicule of his love." Woolf Orlando 102
the obscure man alone is ample and free. the roots of the oak tree exposed above the ground, right outside our window this bright November noon "thinking how obscurity rids the mind of the irk of envy and spite; " "Never had the house looked more noble and humane." And what of someone with two houses? One East and one West? Can that even be believed?
formerly the church of St Agnes, "virgin martyr brought to a brothel and then, after hair had sprouted over her entire inaccessible body, slit at the throat---where figures in rags step from the porch stairs." Guyotat 39
quiet Sunday, day "off" it seems, and welcome.
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