Yes. Well. And how did you come to form the opinion that Randolph Henry Ash was interested in LaMotte?” “I found an unfinished draft of a letter to an unidentified woman in a book of his. I thought it might be her. It mentioned Crabb Robinson. He said she understood his poems.” “That doesn’t sound very probable. I wouldn’t have thought his poems would appeal to her. All that cosmic masculinity. That nasty anti-feminist poem about the medium, what was it, Mummy Possest? All that ponderous obfuscation. Everything she wasn’t.” Roland considered the pale incisive mouth with a kind of hopelessness.
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