"This is how, for example, a quite individual feeling such as being separated from a loved one suddenly became, in the very first weeks, the feeling of a whole people and, together with fear, the greatest agony of that long period of exile."
I'm more intrigued by the fact that Vita chose to give her son Anthony, a book about a glamourous aristocrat, the heir to a title and splendid house, in 1936.
"One of his fellows slowed up to save him, but they and the airbourne wall were swallowed by darkness as Hagrid leaned low over the handlebars and sped up."
"She stood in the puddle, liquid dripping down her body like a melting whore-shaped ice lolly, and wondering what to do next, when she heard a faint hissing noise coming from the far wall..."
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