casting off

Top of the World, The Carpenters

Anna Valenn, Le Blog

 'Don't let me ever hear you say that. If you're going to make writing your life, you've got to start depending on your own judgement. You may take notice of other people, but ultimately, it's what you think is right that's right.'

'You often ask me what I think of your painting.'

'Yes, but I'd still go on doing it whatever you said.'

Casting Off (vol. 4/5 of  The Cazalet Chronicles), Elizabeth Jane Howard  Si vous avez aimé la série Downton Abbey, vous allez adorer la saga de la famille Cazalet, famille bien anglaise, bourgeoise et généreuse et ouverte et unie, qui démarre l'été 1937 (tome 1) et s'achève fin des années 50 (tome 5). C'est récréatif et éducatif, et addictif.

The state of London appalled him. Sandbags, boarded-up windows, dirty buildings, blistering paint - there was a general feeling of dinginess and exhaustion. People in the streets looked grey and shabby, tired as they stood patiently at bus stops in straggling queues. The conductors were women, dressed in stiff dark blue serge trouser suits. The queues daunted him - he decided not to take a bus. Every now and then there was another of the posters he had seen at the railway station, 'Is Your Journey Really Necessary?', and another that said, 'Careless Talk Costs Lives', and a third one that simply said, 'Dig For Victory' - all a bit out of date now, he should have thought.