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⇒ Cover ⇒ Preface ⇒ Introduction ⇒ The visit ⇒ Weymouth map c.1930 ⇒ Portland map c.1930 ⇒ Works quoted ⇒ Postface |
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A visit to Weymouth with John Cowper Powys [ ⇒ continue... ] | |
...Weymouth, always the centre of the circumference of my mortal life... (Autobiography) | |
THE STONE | |
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"Have you got a fairly large pocket, Mr. Muir?" she said. Magnus stared at her, and very seriously began removing various objects from his left-hand pocket to his right. "Pretty large," he replied. "Is it a present for Mrs. Cobbold?" Then, while 'Melia and Celia looked on in astonishment, she handed him the stone which had been in the Jobber's pocket so long. "No," she said and the words seemed to come to her by some sudden inspiration. "It's for my old friend, Mr. Gaul. It will keep the 'Philosophy of Representation' from blowing away!" | |
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| John Cowper Powys died on the seventeenth of June, 1963, and his ashes were taken to Chesil Beach and there they were scattered upon the waters of the deep. |
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