Archive for February 2006

“The long-held now”: Sybille Bedford, 1911-2006

Friday, February 24, 2006

From A Legacy:
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow… Life, in the neat sad dry little French phrase that bundles it all into its place, Life is never as bad nor as good as one thinks. La vie, voyez-vous, ça n’est jamais si bon ni si mauvais qu’on croit. Never as bad, never as good… When? At […]

Wondrous Aperçu, Thy Name is Frostine

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

I’m always lusting after something but have never wanted for anything, unlike my mother, who when she was a little girl used to cut watches out of the Sears catalog and tape them to her wrist.
Prunes and Prism