Occasions When the Intellect Retires Gracefully
There are occasions when the intellect retires gracefully from a situation entirely behind its decorous control and leaves all the other complicated machinery of the mind to muddle through on its own.
— Margery Allingham, 1934
From the book Dancers In Mourning
© 1934 Doubleday and Company, Inc.
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