![]() But one has to remember she's also Penelope, she is also the night and the day, she is also an image of the teeming earth - full of seed, rolling round and round. ![]() But that's because (although I dont approve of what he has done) I do think Marian Bloom & Bloom are superbly seen at times. Joyce certainly had not one grain of a desire that one should read it for the sake of the coarseness, though I confess I find many a "ripple of laughter" in it. It is wheels within wheels within wheels. Its fearfully difficult and obscure and one needs to have a really vivid memory of The Odyssey and of English literature to make it out at all. Don't read it unless you are going to really worry about it. So they declare, the Russians here, we are in for another war and for Bolshevism partout. This so disgusted me I turned to Manoukhin & felt sure he would agree that it simply could not be done. Manoukhin's partner here, a very exceptional French-man, started the subject yesterday, said why did not we English immediately join the French and take all vestige of power from Germany. The French at least have a sniff of what may happen but we go on saying "let us all be good", and the Russians & Germans burst with malicious glee. They are absolutely laughing in their beards at the whole affair, and treating us as fools even greater than the French. The Bolsheviks at Genoa are complete cynics. Manoukhin and all the Russians here say it means war in the near future - for certain, for certain! It is the beginning of Bolshevism all over Europe. I am very interested that Koteliansky thinks the German Russian treaty good. I expect you'd have a "spiritual" reason. Letters aren't everything, but I have always found it a trifle difficult to understand how people keep in touch without them. ![]() And then along came your letter with the days fly by & painted eggs and so on. I couldn't believe it of you, after I had so earnestly begged you to keep in touch. That first long gap including Easter amazed and worried me. ![]() I am always astonished you write so seldom. They will do anything for one and one can keep canaries or cover the walls with pictures or have 13 vases of flowers as one little Chinaman has (according to my maid) and the servants like it! They are certainly a remarkable set of servants - I shall always come back here with pleasure. Terrible lessons in patience are needed to be ill in an hotel. Another gritty, heavy tray on this bed and I shall scream. Well, if Im going to get up for lunch up I must get. ![]()
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