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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... ] |
The fact that we all of us, at every hour of our common day, are surrounded by this unthinkable thing, space without end, is an eternal reminder that the forms, shapes and events of habitual occurence, which we are inclined to take so easily for granted, are part of a staggering and inscrutable enigma. |
HIGH TIDE AT BRUNSWICK TERRACE
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... when young Ballard closed his eyes ... there appeared a look of appealing innocence, which resembled the innocence of one of those Florentine angels that we see in the background of so many old Italian pictures. As the waves came up below Brunswick Terrace that morning, under the pressure of the high tide, mounting and receding along the pebbles with hardly a trace of foam, only the faintest sound of the sea penetrated the Town Clerk's bedroom. But towards that sleeping youth, through his half-open window, came these two intense vibrations of emotion, the invocation of passionate hate from the boy kneeling by that ditch, and the invocation of self-forgetful devotion from the flaxen-haired girl in her Upwey bed. |
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