Word: landor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imagined sexual wrong, and the journalistic saint becomes a fallen angel. As an ironic footnote, he is buried under a misattributed quote. Parkinson sends a wreath inscribed with a line supposedly from Robert Browning ("Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art"). It is really from Walter Savage Landor, but Querry, ambiguous martyr, might have accepted it, as well as Lander's conclusion: "I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart...
...just before I die, but only just" Recalling the meaning of her name, Isak Dinesen feels she has had the gift of laughter, and something more, "the pure joy of living, a sort of triumph simply because one exists." For the rest, she is content to quote the poet Landor...