Present and Past
But it is not only the living that " get you." It’s not just seeing Duncan Grant, the painter, dash up his steps two at a time with a loaf of bread in his hand. Or Epstein cross the road from his home in Guildford Street to post a letter. It’s not just having a hair-trim in the tiny French place in Queen’s Road and recognising Edith Sitwell pay-
ing at the desk for her manicure and slipping off to her flat round the corner. London is inhabited as much by the Past as the Present. I have been there a week perhaps. I leave my studio room in Charlotte Street and dash round the corner to the little bakery before it closes. I am arrested by a small house wedged among others but with a beautiful window-arched and perfectly proportioned. It’s width is the width of the house. It is a story high. I cross the road. And in the dusk I read the small blue medallion set there by the London County Council. "Thackeray’s House." I look dazedly at the hurrying little street. Thackeray. Not to-day, Douglas Reed and Insanity Fair, but yesterday, Thackeray with his Vanity Fair. The bread shop has shut, I have no bread. I have slipped back nearly a century.- (" My London." Alison Grant Robinson, 2YA, April 15.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 149, 1 May 1942, Page 3
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226Present and Past New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 149, 1 May 1942, Page 3
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