"See you back in the bookshop
on Wednesday, Aug. 13."
Thursday, August 7, 2014
24 March 1948
"The sun streams into my window, and I can just see from my bed the last span of the Pont de Grenelle. If I get up, the Seine is there, flowing so slow it might be a lake threaded under bridges. At night, the wide space of water is tinseled with lights and the sky immense above.
Julian* rushed off to Geneva last night, to be at the U.N. Meeting on Free Flow of Information. No-one went hopefully, because the Russians will boycott it. He returns tonight in the small hours. Poor J is being so overworked, he has no private life left--unless he tears it out of the early morning and goes for a walk, looking at birds and fishermen for 10 minutes a day. Quelle galere!
"...What a dream, to liberate Russia...We are all, they as well as us, so blinded by fear that we don't know anymore where to turn for hope. Two years ago we had so much more hope..."
~ Juliette Huxley Leaves of the Tulip Tree, Autobiography, Oxford Letters & Memoirs. Oxford University Press, 1987
*Sir Julian Huxley, brother of Aldous Huxley, husband of Juliette. First Director of UNESCO
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