A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and LettersDutton, 1984 - 358 pages |
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... dark on my bicycle - riding or walking in the dark , especially to firewatching , is surely the most detached and lonely time . One cannot feel really sad because one seems to be outside oneself . It's the state I once described to ...
... dark on my bicycle - riding or walking in the dark , especially to firewatching , is surely the most detached and lonely time . One cannot feel really sad because one seems to be outside oneself . It's the state I once described to ...
Page 274
... dark suit of the librarian - or perhaps he may be on holiday , having exchanged the dark suit for a T shirt - with an inscription like BIRD LIVES on the chest ? It must be about this time that you take your car on holiday somewhere ? I ...
... dark suit of the librarian - or perhaps he may be on holiday , having exchanged the dark suit for a T shirt - with an inscription like BIRD LIVES on the chest ? It must be about this time that you take your car on holiday somewhere ? I ...
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... dark village and parish halls , with the same jumble of ideas . I sometimes amuse myself by trying to guess what sort of poem ( or hymn ) you would have written if you had been Laureate instead of Betjeman ! Jake Balokowsky , biographer ...
... dark village and parish halls , with the same jumble of ideas . I sometimes amuse myself by trying to guess what sort of poem ( or hymn ) you would have written if you had been Laureate instead of Betjeman ! Jake Balokowsky , biographer ...
Contents
List of Illustrations vii | 9 |
Preface by Hazel Holt | xiii |
The Early Life by Hilary Pym I | xviii |
Copyright | |
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