excerpt from 'The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner' pp. 46 (108 words)
excerpt from 'The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner' pp. 46 (108 words)
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...dined with Victor for a Delius concert. Victor sickening for he knew not what, and the Delius concert rather bored us. The truth is we neither of us like music enough for that kind of thing. [...] Delius should never be shown a word. Words dry him up. He was there, blind and paralysed, bowing his rather bird-like head to the applause. The performance was sympathetically encored, and each time I thought he would crash the blind brow into the gallery barrier. We may not be a musical nation, but we are so kind to dumb animals. When he was alive and kicking, who gave a damn for Delius? |
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