2/15/2023 0 Comments Best mystery novels never read![]() The sheets were jigsawed together – rather like the Dead Sea scrolls – by a troupe of Pessoan disciples, who delivered it to the world half a century after the author's death. In his remains was found a large trunk stuffed with 25,000 sheets of manuscript. He was a "discreet alcoholic" – a discreet everything, in fact. ![]() Pessoa, a minor figure in the minor Lisbon literary world, kept body and soul together during his lifetime by office servitude. The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa, 1991 The old lecher has to make do with one of the maids at Buckingham palace: "a plesant girl of 18 with a round red face and rather stary eyes".) 8. Keynote line: "My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you." (Mr Salteena, when Ethel marries elsewhere. And never fool yourself that nine-year-olds don't see what grownups get up to. She is given to "sneery" looks and a "snappy tone" when crossed. Mr Salteena had dark short hair and mustache and wiskers which were very black and twisty."Įthel has "a blue velvit frock which had grown rarther short in the sleeves" (so, one must suspect, did young Daisy have such a frock). ![]() He had quite a young girl staying with him of 17 named Ethel Monticue. The narrative opens (imagine the ubiquitous "" after all the misspellings): "Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him. Pater duly copied the stories out, retaining his clever daughter's quaint grammar and spelling and stunningly precocious plots picked up from romance novels left around by her older sisters. Young Miss Ashford wrote novels after tea and before bedtime (a strict half-past six) for the delectation of her father, a Whitehall civil servant.
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