Sublime

Harriet Elizabeth obviously had too little to occupy her active mind, so she was directed not only to master the abstractions of Butler’s Analogy but to teach a course on the book to girls of her own age. Harriet Elizabeth accomplished the terrifying assignment by keeping one chapter ahead of her students.

Just back from four days at Asheham and one at Charleston. I sit waiting for Leonard to come in, with a brain still running along the railway lines, which unfits it for reading. But oh, dear, what a lot I’ve got to read! The entire works of Mr James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, so as to compare them with the entire works of Dickens and Mrs

That Anne should herself be noticed she felt to be astounding, and she’d received Lorna’s first attention with a confused shyness that looked aloof.

Cynthia is a protegee of my mother’s, the daughter of an old schoolfellow of hers,

The Diary of Anaïs Nin—five

Gossip was the currency of our former lives, before we found our way to this quiet corner of Maine. Ben Diamond was the first to plant a flag here, nine years ago. He’d retired early to take care of his ailing wife, and his search for the perfect town pointed him here, to the village of Purity. It had everything he required: a bookstore, a decent