And I suddenly saw his face very clearly, not just in the way one usually sees the faces of people one is very used to. I saw how he had changed since I was little and I thought of Ralph Hodgson’s line about “tamed and shabby tigers.” How long it takes to write the thoughts of a minute! I thought of many more things, complicated, pathetic and very puzzling, just while father read the list.
So true. This is why I dislike hand-writing things.
