The heartbreak of war began with the goodbys in the streets or stations.

She must either Japonise her modernism more thoroughly, or else understand all the associations that are linked, in the Occident, to certain objects. But what on earth is the use of Christmas in Japan?

Empire of the Sun was an enormous literary and commercial success in Britain but pretty much bit the Big One on its own in the United States.

Thou sweet Arabian Panchaia, / Perfume this nastie age, smugge Lesbia / Hath stinking lunges, although a simpring grace, / A muddy inside, though a sulphul'd face.