Mr. Spenlow told me this day week was Dora's birthday, and he would be glad if I would come down and join a little picnic on the occasion. . . . I think I committed every possible absurdity in the way of preparation for this blessed event.
Visualize these operations by considering the simple screw and transflection. Transflection can be imagined as seeing yourself in a mirror even as the mirror is being moved parallel to itself.
[Lionel] Johnson was stern by nature, strong by intellect, and always, I think, deliberately picked his company, but [Ernest] Dowson seemed gentle, affectionate, drifting.
However, I have received two messages to-night, and I can only ascribe to them an extra-corporeal origin.