interretialia:optimistsdaughter:And Victor sat in a chair by the kitchen range, the only warm pl
interretialia: optimistsdaughter: And Victor sat in a chair by the kitchen range, the only warm place in the house. He followed the news of the war in The Times every day and took the Kentish Gazette on Thursdays. He read Ovid, particularly Tristia, his poems of exile. When he read, he ran his hand over his face so that the children couldn’t see what the poet did to him. - Edmund de Waal Optime! -- source link