Thursday, March 15, 2018

 

Distraction

David Garnett, Introduction to Anna Wickham, Selected Poems (London: Chatto & Windus, 1971), p. 8:
[S]he told me that she had taken Hall and Knight's Algebra with her and had spent her time in the private asylum working out quadratic equations in order to keep her mind from dwelling on her situation and to overcome her rancour.
Hat tip: Ian Jackson.



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