I swear that each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant impossible socially but fullscale and that its the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other that...

I swear that each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant impossible socially but fullscale and that its the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other that keeps our intercourse from utter banaility.
Elizabeth Bowen

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The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet – when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
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Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married any wife could be faintly rude to anyone elses husband.
- Elizabeth Bowen

I swear that each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant impossible socially but fullscale and that its the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other that keeps our intercourse from utter banaility. Elizabeth Bowen

I swear that each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant impossible socially but fullscale and that its the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other that keeps our intercourse from utter banaility.
Elizabeth Bowen