"cool, lady-like, critical; or
ravishing, romantic"
London
Civilisied
Ambulance is "one of the
triumphs of civilization"
"the communal
spirit of London"
Incompassionate
"the efficiency, the
organization... perhaps
it was morbid"
"but London would have
none of it, and rushed her
bayonets into the sky"
Relationships
"It was unsatisfactory,
they agreed, how little
one knew people"
"to know... any one, one must
seek out the people who
completed them; even the places"
"it would not have been
a success, their marriage"
"their desire, pulsing in them, tugging
at them subterraneously, somehow to
establish connections"
Past and present
"the part of us which
appears, are so momentary
compared with the other,
the unseen part of us... the
unseen might survive"
"sharp, acute, uncomfortable
grain - the actual meeting...
[then] it would flower out"
"the privilege of
loneliness; in privacy
one may do as one
chooses"
"our soul... who fish-like
inhabits deep seas and plies
among obscurities threading
her way between the boles of
giant weeds... suddenly she
shoots to the surface"