Ain’t it odd how the vision at the Sevenoaks fishmonger’s has worked itself into my idea of you?
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(Virginia Woolf on Vita Sackville West who on a shopping trip Christmas 1925 stood in a pink jersey and pearls next to a porpoise lit up on a fishmonger’s slab. The Ocarina is a soprano in E-flat. That’s Vanessa Bell leaning over with a cricket bat , as if rowing to song)