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"...I cannot now read his poems or books without their evoking in me a more intense sadness than his drawings. I hear him in every line and every thought, in every humorous and extravagant fancy. The tenderness that was germane to him and the quality of clowning."
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Things were pseudo-hygienic. Face-masks were an essential. I saw Mervyn soon after the birth...
In the afternoon, the door was pushed open and he came in, maskless, with a painting, still wet, that he had done to celebrate the birth. I hardly caught sight of it before he was pushed out of the room in a most irate fashion and told not to return without a face-mask, and certainly not with such a germ-laden anachronism
— Jul 12, 2020 09:46AM
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In the afternoon, the door was pushed open and he came in, maskless, with a painting, still wet, that he had done to celebrate the birth. I hardly caught sight of it before he was pushed out of the room in a most irate fashion and told not to return without a face-mask, and certainly not with such a germ-laden anachronism
