The Corner That Held Them - Sylvia Townsend Warner Jim Nutt Even the most familiar relations

Even the most familiar relations transform until a father becomes the 'Chosen One' as well as 'an Oak Tree of Fine Understanding

often employing the ovoid or egg form to punctuate his sometimes large canvases

as we consume thoughts and air and bread

“all the poets are jealous of it

The Corner That Held Them - Sylvia Townsend Warner Jim Nutt Even the most familiar relationsThe Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner ISBN 9781681373874 paperback from NYRB Classics I love this book. *** A unique novel about life in a 14th century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warners The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time