If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?


The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: The good soldier. Selected memories. Poems (ed. 1962)


If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four...

If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four...

If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four...

If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four...