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Duddly Hotel
Brighton
Friday Eve
My Poor Will,
Any moment now, the great annual cow-pat, warm from the anu mondi (grammar right?), will plop upon your back. There will come the grunt of pain that only the elite among dung beetles is capable bonding, the limbs will bend like so many angle-poise lamps (MKII) + then slowly, courageously straighten themselves to lake the extra load and the brave beetle, cursing as only dung beetles can curse, will be on his way again down to Camel track under the hot sun, extending petulant sheets of quilt paper?
Right?
Right?
Now because I am not at the helm, this pat comes to you uncorrected, so be an angel + write "Uncorrected Typescript" boldly on the front. Second, expect many small errors such as 'Scout' instead of 'Secret' (!) on p. 28
And I really don't want any other than you + Michael to see it in the present form as I feel it needs much improvement.
I would personally like to take it back to Jamaica + paint the lily next year, thus skipping a year, which will do no harm, halving Cape's profits for 1965, which they probably deserve, + giving myself about the right-sized stint for my next semester.
For this is, alas, the last Bond and, again alas, I mean it, for I really have run out of both puff + zest, and I would not like to short-weight my faithful readers of the ___ service. But we will talk about that.
Anyway, was it him, + don't wince the words. There is no point in doing so.
I am here for another good 10 days. In bed, dammit! But promised an outing to the xray monster tomorrow!! These snip-codas have really got me on my knees. But I have a darling nurse with whom I hold deliciously infantile conversations. "That is the west Pier. It is very pleasant to walk upon piers."
"You might play bingo on the pier. It is an amusing game.' Yes, it would be fun to play bingo on the pier." etc. etc.
Quite a change from the rich ___ I am used to with Annie who comes tomorrow. The contrast is so sharp that the last time she came down for lunch she put my pulse up to 120!
Annie was excellent. Just wading through a II class exhibit by a chap called O.F. Snelling, published by Spearman. Even Shakespeare never had it so good!
Much love,
Ian
P.S. Congrats on "The Curfew" -But not enough about you in the ____!
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Interesting use of the phrase "paint the lily." "Gild the lily" is perhaps more common, no? Note the wordplay on the title of the catalog displayed at the Lilly Reading Room desk: "Gilding the Lilly" (this was the title of the anniversary exhibition of medieval manuscripts).
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