"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."
Edith Sitwell
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Oh bloody hell, I really shouldn't leave him in the shop on his own.
ReplyDeleteI'm not on my own...
ReplyDeleteI am selling folk who loved The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber Charles Palliser's Quincunx...