Commonplace Book

'The book we've just finished is Sartre's Novel translated, called 'The Age of Reason'. You ought to read it --- It's a Peach! - a lovely soft rotten Peach! whose juice keeps running down your chin as if down Aaron's beard! and you have the lovely liquorish taste long after it's done & down!'

from a letter dated June 7, 1947 in Letters to Louis Wilkinson 1935-1956 by John Cowper Powys