this idea that your lungs will explode if you can’t reach the surface— lungs don’t explode they collapse without oxygen I have it from Virginia Woolf who once spoke to me at a party not of course about drowning of which she had no idea yet—have I told you this story before? I remember the sky behind her was purple she came towards me saying Why are you alone in this huge blank garden like a piece of electricity? Electricity? Maybe she said cakes and tea true we were drinking gin it was long past teatime but she was a highly original woman I was praying God let it have been cakes and tea I’ll
...more
