Sunday, July 10, 2011

Daily Dose

From The Letters of Henry Adams, edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford

ARIDITY

"Aridity grows on me. I always felt myself like Casaubon in Middlemarch, and now I see the tendency steadily creeping over me."

From a letter to Henry Cabot Lodge, dated 22, Queen Anne's Gate, S.W., 13, May, 1880

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