He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.


Reply when asked why he did not visit Rome, quoted in Penelope Fitzgerald, The Knox Brothers (1977)


He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.

He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.

He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.

He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.