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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which I was called unexpectedly and against all desire to witness one woman's agony as she underwent this "essential experience." I was speeding along a desolate stretch of road in southern California a few years ago when I saw the car ahead, the only other one in sight, slither to a haphazard stop beside the road. The driver was a woman, suddenly torn with pain. She had been driving alone into town when her time had come. Shaking with terror I jerked the cushioned seats from my car, made a bed for her in the shadow...
...Further Range, Poet Frost's latest collection, contains some 50 pieces, from two-line quiddities to an eleven-page discourse. Though the subjects are generally homely, everyday, they range a long way from home but always come back to a New England earth. The sight of a boy teasing some caged monkeys with a burning-glass leads Frost to some characteristic thoughts on monkeys...
Then he met Katherine Mansfield. She sent a story to Rhythm, he wrote her, they met. They took to each other at first sight. She rented him a room in her apartment, but for a while their relations were purely platonic. When they became lovers they wanted to get married, but for six years her husband would not give her a divorce. Murry felt inferior to Katherine Mansfield, but he did not consider her a genius. (Once, though, he wrote her: "I know this, too, that you and I are geniuses.") Only two real geniuses he has ever...
Written by the late Elsie Schauffier, "Parnell" dramatizes the romantic affair between the famed leader of the Irish Party and the beautiful Katherine O'Shea. Irresistibly attracted at first sight the lovers are impelled to consummate their feelings in the only manner possible under the rigid British divorce laws. They take up common residence with the tacit consent of Kate's husband, the fatuous dandy, Captain William O'Shea. Aspiring to political position which he can gain only through Parnell's favor, O'Shea makes himself so universally disliked that a breach arises in the Irish Party...
...back to the Tower and much troubled again with my eyes. I do fear that one day I must forbear to write my journal it taxing my sight exceedingly, and then again I know my days are few, but God prepare I will continue until the year is done. Thence to bed, sleeping on my side, being very sore...