I’m reading your Lilith again,
With much intellectual pleasure
And some little physical pain.
This jingle shaped itself within my head
As I stepped to my table from my bed.
It’s that physical pain I’m after for the present. The book hurts my eyes....
I’ve had a little petty cash from the Couperus books. It’s been amusing to see that Small Souls in a given six months produces 15 times as much in America as in this benighted country....
Though he commonly kept his religion and politics to himself, Teixeira’s sympathy with the Irish moved him to write, 27.10.20:
I’m angrily unhappy at the death of McSwiney. To kill a man with a face like that! Compare the faces of those who killed him!...
It’s a brute of a world that the sun is shining on so brightly....