You are the unexploded bomb to me
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West
English novelist and poet Vita Sackville-West died 60 years ago today. For your enjoyment, below, barely arranged in any kind of order, can be found some choice cuts from her letters, beginning with my favourite (Harold Nicolson, it must be said, died long after Vita, and not from cyanide poisoning).
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