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The Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II

December 16, 1922

… It seems to me very mysterious how so many of us nowadays refuse to be cave-dwellers any longer, but in our several ways are trying to learn to escape. The old London life, whatever it was—but even the life we have led recently wherever we have been, is no longer even possible to me. It is so far from me that it seems to exist in another world. This, of course, is a wrong feeling. page 266 For, after all, there are the seeds of what we long after in everybody, and if one remembers that, any surroundings are … possible, at least.

I read Youspensky's Tertium Organum the other day. For some reason it didn't carry me away. I think it is quite interesting, but … perhaps I was not in the mood for books. I am not at present, though I know that in the future I shall want to write them more than anything else in the world. But different books … I confess present-day literature simply nauseates me, excepting always Hardy and the other few whose names I can't remember. But the general trend of it seems to me quite without any value whatever.