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Cyril Lionel Robert James
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'I slept a little and next morning being Friday amused myself in bed with the Times, the Daily Herald, the New Statesman and Nation, the Times Literary Supplement (which had come on the Thursday but which I had not read) and the delightful Miss Rebecca West in the Daily Telegraph as usual every Friday.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Cyril Lionel Robert James Print: Newspaper
John Locke :
'... at about half past two walking up Oxford Street I saw Bumpus's, the famous bookshop. There was an exhibition on there free of charge, the library and papers of John Locke, the famous English philosopher. So I went in and had a look. There were the books that the sage used, his desk, his manuscripts, his private notebooks ... One of the notebooks was open and I read a note to the effect that a man told him how at a certain place in France five miles from such and such a spot was "a spring which was cold in summer and hot in winter." "This," added Locke, in a touch which I appreciated, "he told me he knew from his own observation."'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Cyril Lionel Robert James Manuscript: Manuscript notebook.
Edmond Rostand : Cyrano de Bergerac
'We reached his room about eleven. To do what? Not a blessed thing but to sit before a fire and talk and read again.... On his shelf was ... Edmund Rostand's [italics] Cyrano de Bergerac [end italics] in the original French. I started to read the famous speech on his nose. My good friend went ahead with me line for line without the book. Then he in turn read the "Non merci" speech with immense gusto.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Cyril Lionel Robert James Print: Book
Luigi Pirandello : Six Characters in Search of an Author
'When I reached home someone had dropped a letter in the box telling me to come over on Sunday between eleven and twelve because she would be at home then. I went, we went for lunch, went to the Student Movement House and read magazines and talked about them between for and eight, and then six of us met in her room and read Pirandello's Six characters in search of an author ... That is the sort of thing that is happening day after day. That is, of course, if you want it. If you want to go dancing you can ... But if you want to live the intellectual life Bloomsbury is the place.
