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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Soames's view of psycho-analysis

The White Monkey (John Galsworthy)

"There was a thing they called psycho-analysis, which so far as he could understand attributed people's action not to what they ate at breakfast, or the leg they got out of bed with, as in the good old days, but to some shock they had received in the remote past and entirely forgotten."

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Poetry and Putney

The White Monkey (John Galsworthy)

"Poetry's only possible when you may be blown up at any moment, or when you live in Putney."