Thursday, January 26, 2023
The World Is Strange to Me
Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (New York: Pantheon, 1969), p. 108 (Christopher Falconer speaking):
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Real gardening is dying, dying . . . dying. There aren't many gardeners of my calibre left. I am a young man who has got caught in the old ways. I am thirty-nine and I am a Victorian gardener, and this is why the world is strange to me.
