Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Last Day of Work
Charles Lamb, letter to Henry Crabb Robinson (March 29, 1825):
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I have left the d———d India House for Ever!"A Chronology of C.P. Cavafy," in C.P. Cavafy, The Collected Poems. Translated by Evangelos Sachperoglou. Greek Text Edited by Anthony Hirst. With an Introduction by Peter Mackridge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. xlv-xlviii (at xlvii, under the year 1922):
Give me great joy.
Cavafy resigns from his office job and proclaims: 'I have been liberated at last from this hateful thing.'
