Sylvia Townsend Warner Quote

He wore a glittering brass helmet much too large for him and looked, so my mother said, like a weevil in a nut.


Scenes of Childhood (1981)


He wore a glittering brass helmet much too large for him and looked, so my mother said, like a weevil in a nut.

He wore a glittering brass helmet much too large for him and looked, so my mother said, like a weevil in a nut.

He wore a glittering brass helmet much too large for him and looked, so my mother said, like a weevil in a nut.

He wore a glittering brass helmet much too large for him and looked, so my mother said, like a weevil in a nut.