Thursday, June 25, 2009

Daily Dose

From Vainglory, by Ronald Firbank

EFFORT

"'I feel I want to go somewhere and be quietly ugly for a week,' Miss Compostella was confiding to George Calvally, as she cut a little wild-duck with her luminous hands. 'The effort of having to look more or less like one's photographs is becoming such a strain.'"

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