June 1918

Looe. Feature Extraordinary : Shoes that have never squeaked before start up a squeaking. A cold day — the cuckoo singing and the sea like liquid metal. Everything feels detached — uprooted — flying through the hurtling air or about to fly. Mrs. Honey There's almost a sense of having to dodge these un- natural rudderless birds. ... To use a homely image, imagine the world an immense drying ground with everything blown off the lines. ... It is very nervously exhausting. And the day spent itself The idle hours blew on it and it shed itself like seed. . . .