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The Swedish
John Cowper Powys Society
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Newsletter no. 11 – by Lars Gustaf Andersson In an
old issue (no 60/2007) of The Powys Society Newsletter, you can read a
notice, quite similar to those categorical listings that are common in the
tabloid cultural journalism of today. It is an excerpt from a small-print,
published by book dealer G. F. Sims in 1981, based upon an old guest book of
his. John Cowper Powys is among the contributors. On 7th May 1958 he
describes what he likes, as well as what he dislikes: He likes ”cold milk
drunk fresh” and ”looking at the outside of my favourite books from where I
lie on my couch”. He dislikes
”visiting other people and ”people talking about their ’roots’”: ”But
what I dread most of all for myself or for anyone else is Insomnia and I
don’t like Pouring Rain or Heavy Snow or The Game of Cricket or Travelling by
Bus or Car or Letting someone else post my letters”. And what he loves most
of all: ”Seeing the first dandelions”. |
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updated 4 April 2012.