← If Rothenstein had not been there, I should have revered Soames. 🔊
← I asked if I might ask what kind of book it was to be. 🔊
← Rothenstein asked if this was to be the title of the book. 🔊
← "If a book is good in itself—" he murmured, and waved his cigarette. 🔊
← I asked if Rothenstein had read "Negations." 🔊
← I asked him if he often read here. 🔊
← Yet even now, if one doesn't try to make any sense at all of the poem, and reads it just for the sound, there is a certain grace of cadence. 🔊
← He looked at me across his glass of absinthe and asked if I had bought a copy. 🔊
← I remember saying at last that if indeed I was destined to write about him, the supposed "stauri" had better have at least a happy ending. 🔊
← You wouldn't say so if you had ever seen him, and I assure you that in no period would Soames be anything but dim. 🔊