Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Watching sunsets in a time of war

when her brother had remarked that "Sybil seemed very mopy". She had been shocked when she heard this by a sense of her disloyalty, since she believed enjoyment to be a debt which every man owes to his fellows, partly for its own sake, partly lest he at all diminish their own precarious hold on it.

Charles Williams, The Greater Trumps

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