Eccentricity plus ...

tall, exotically dressed and invariably turbanned eccentric ... a familiar feature of London literary life.

"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it."






 Edith Sitwell  (1887-1964) British poet and critic.

Motherly intuition

My mother never wrote me a letter, ever. Father had on occasion. Both were not much into letter writing. When I did receive a letter from her, it was a complete surprise. It simply stated my father had some minor physical ailment, the nature of which she was not precise nor did she, so I thought, understand. But she sensed it was a death knell without really saying so. It was a quality which she had that hinted at folksy wisdom which I respected, one of the few qualities she had I did respect. It was a “heads up” letter that proved out.