The Love-Charm of Bombs (81 page)

‘Marriage was not':
see GG to CW, 30 January 1950 (GG GU).

‘a priest who had':
see GG to CW, 13 April 1950 (GG GU).

‘He could only offer':
see GG to CW, 3 April 1950 (GG GU).

‘most people are only':
see CW's diary, 26 February 1949 (GG GU).

‘The greatest saints':
GG, ‘Frederick Rolfe: Edwardian Inferno',
The Lost Childhood and Other Essays
(London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951).

‘Reviewing Greene's':
George Orwell, ‘The Sanctified Sinner',
Collected Essays, Journalism, Letters
, vol. 4:
In Front of Your Nose
, ed. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970).

‘What sort of sinner':
see Malcolm Muggeridge,
Chronicles of Wasted Time
, vol. 2:
The Infernal Grove
(London: Collins, 1973),
p. 105.

‘she had dreamt about having':
CW, diary, 24 March 1950 (GG GU).

‘And to the other':
CW, diary, 28 March 1950 (GG GU).

‘He understood how':
see GG to CW, 11 April 1949 (GG GU).

‘You're my human':
GG to CW, 8 December 1949 (GG GU).

‘exceptionally likeable':
see GG to CW, December 1947 (GG GU).

‘He hated going':
see GG to CW, 18 December 1949 (GG GU).

‘Order of Battle': see ibid.

‘see Catherine's hand':
see GG to CW, February 1950 (GG GU).

‘In a few years': see ibid.

‘looking yearningly':
see GG to CW, 28 February 1950 (GG GU).

‘superb piece':
CW to Bonte Durán, 13 March 1950, in Norman Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
(London: Pimlico, 2004–5),
vol. 2, p. 326.

‘The three of them had':
see GG to Bonte Durán, 19 March 1950, in ibid.

‘Spent the morning':
CW, diary, 11 January 1950 (GG GU).

‘violent quarrel':
CW, diary, 21 March 1950 (GG GU).

‘another bad':
CW, diary, 22 March 1950 (GG GU).

‘why he had been so cruel':
see GG to CW, 28 March 1950 (GG GU).

‘He had never imagined':
see GG to CW, 29 March 1950 (GG GU).

‘he was praying':
see GG to CW, 3 April 1950 (GG GU).

‘a miserable day':
CW, diary, 12 April 1950 (GG GU).

‘he felt strongly':
see GG to CW, 12 April 1950 (GG GU).

‘almost all':
CW, diary, 13 April 1950 (GG GU).

‘particularly nice':
CW, diary, 12 February 1950 (GG GU).

‘I am certain':
CW, diary, 16 May 1950 (GG GU).

‘unhappy evening':
CW, diary, 19 May 1950 (GG GU).

‘Graham really hates':
CW, diary, 25 May 1950 (GG GU).

‘cautious and depressed':
CW, diary, 31 May 1950 (GG GU).

‘Caught disease':
CW, diary, 28 March 1949 (GG GU).

‘I am a coward':
CW to Bonte Durán, 16 June 1950, in Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
,
vol. 2, p. 318.

‘Graham seemed very':
CW to Phillip Caraman, 17 July 1950 (GG BU).

‘more peaceful':
CW to Phillip Caraman, undated (GG BU).

‘no judge
on':
CW to Phillip Caraman, undated (GG BU).

‘so good and': ibid.

‘a long talk':
CW, diary, 12 October 1950 (GG GU).

‘the story had germinated':
see GG,
Ways of Escape
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982),
ch. 5iii.

‘Is it possible':
GG,
EoA
,
book 2, ch. 2.

‘sweet':
GG, ibid.,
book 3, ch. 2; book 2, ch. 3; book 2, ch. 1; book 1, ch .2; book 2, ch. 2.

‘almost as a conniver': ibid.,
book 1, ch. 1; book 1, ch. 7.

‘one gets so': ibid.,
book 1, ch. 1; book 1, ch. 3; book 2, ch. 4.

‘Suddenly I wanted': ibid.,
book 2, ch. 3; book 2, ch. 6; book 2, ch. 1.

‘with nervous irritation': ibid., book 1, ch. 6; book 2, ch. 2.

‘not at peace': ibid.,
book 3, ch. 1.

‘I swear that if': ibid.,
book 2, ch. 2.

‘the best part of it':
see GG to CW, 22 March 1950 (GG GU).

‘a situation where they':
GG to CW, undated (GG GU).

‘this may possibly':
CW to Phillip Caraman, 23 July 1951 (GG BU).

‘Greene behaved':
Evelyn Waugh to Nancy Mitford, 19 September 1951,
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
, ed. Charlotte Mosley (London: Sceptre, 1997).

‘Flying between the clouds':
see GG to CW, 6 October 1951 (GG GU).

 

22:
‘Let us neither of us forget . . . what reality feels like and eternity is'

‘as though you':
EB to CR, 4 September 1948 (
LCW
).

‘I can go no':
CR, diary, 5 September 1948 (
LCW
).

‘Oh, I am':
EB to CR, 7 September 1948 (
LCW
).

‘Keep me in your':
EB to CR, 14 April 1949 (
LCW
).

‘dearest friend': EB to CR, 26 May 1949 (
LCW
).

‘Oh God':
EB to CR, 28 October 1949 (
LCW
).

‘Oh E, how':
CR, diary, 16 October 1949 (
LCW
).

‘I should like':
CR, diary, 11 November 1951 (
LCW
).

‘the most extraordinary':
CR, diary, 2 December 1951 (
LCW
).

‘My inability': EB to CR, 16 October 1949 (
LCW
).

‘Our love is':
EB to CR, 5 January 1950 (
LCW
).

‘Yes, I think':
EB to CR, 6 May 1950 (
LCW
).

‘a page or': EB to CR, 16 October 1949 (
LCW
).

‘You are my':
EB to CR, 18 June 1953 (
LCW
).

‘the perfect dwelling':
EB to CR, 28 October 1949 (
LCW
).

‘would be your':
EB to CR, 26 December 1949 (
LCW
).

‘In a queer':
EB to CR, 5 January 1950 (
LCW
).

‘feeling for words':
Nora Wydenbruck,
Rilke: Man and Poet; A Biographical Study
(London: John Lehmann, 1949),
pp. 171, 166–7.

‘precious hours': ibid.,
pp. 181, 185, 187–8.

‘intense sympathy': ibid.,
pp. 224, 237, 305.

‘Let us not': ibid.,
p. 288.

‘I look at your':
Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet, 6 August 1846,
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert
, ed. and trans. Francis Steegmuller (London: Picador, 2001).

‘He loved her':
EB, preface to
The Flaubert Omnibus
,
Collected Impressions
(London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1950).

‘a caress, a kiss':
EB, translation of a letter from Flaubert to Louise Colet (EB HRC).

‘extraordinary feeling':
EB to CR, 6 November 1960 (
LCW
).

‘In 1946, in daylight':
see EB to CR, 30 June 1946 (
LCW
).

‘rather ill again':
EB to CR, 26 May 1949 (
LCW
).

‘terrifyingly empty days':
EB to William Plomer, 9 September 1952,
The Mulberry Tree: Writings of Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Hermione Lee (London: Vintage, 1999).

‘queer state of':
EB to Isaiah Berlin, 8 October 1952 (Isaiah Berlin archive, Bod).

‘To his belief':
EB autobiographical note, 1953 (EB HCR).

‘Do you know':
EB to CR, 6 July 1954 (
LCW
).

‘growing realisation':
CR, diary, May 1954 (
LCW
).

‘feverish high-pressure':
CR, diary, 18 July 1954 (
LCW
).

‘a life to let':
CR, diary, 29 July 1954 (
LCW
).

‘the uninterrupted':
EB to CR, November 1954 (
LCW
).

‘Oh I miss you':
EB to CR, 14 August 1954 (
LCW
).

‘so restless and':
EB to CR, November 1954 (
LCW
).

‘non-achievement of happiness':
EB, ‘Disappointment' 1,
People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen
, ed. Allan Hepburn (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008).

‘never underrate':
EB, ‘Disappointment' 2 (
People, Places, Things
).

‘looking at life':
CR, diary, 8 December 1954 (
LCW
).

‘a sort of exhilaration':
CR, diary, 9 December 1954 (
LCW
).

‘loneliness, sorrow':
CR, diary, 10 December 1954 (
LCW
).

‘The way you two':
EB,
A World of Love
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1957),
chs 7, 1, 8.

‘a speaking language': ibid.,
ch. 1.

‘profound breath': ibid.,
chs 5, 6, 8.

‘They no sooner': ibid.,
chs 11, 2, 4.

‘E has a miraculous':
CR, diary, 11 November 1956 (
LCW
).

‘unreal happiness':
CR, diary, 12 December 1954 (
LCW
).

‘middle-aged paradise': CR, diary, 20 December 1954 (
LCW
).

‘Your sweetness':
EB to CR, 4 January 1955 (
LCW
).

‘if your hatred':
CR, diary, 15 April 1955 (
LCW
).

‘sad, disturbing':
CR, diary, 28 August 1955 (
LCW
).

‘You must really':
EB to CR, 6 January 1956 (
LCW
).

‘The fact is':
EB to CR, 29 February 1956 (
LCW
).

‘These last ten':
EB to CR, 15 May 1956 (
LCW
).

 

23:
‘The world my wilderness, its caves my home'

‘a lovely little':
RM to Jean Macaulay, 16 July 1949 (RM TC).

‘shinned down a':
Penelope Fitzgerald, introduction to Virago 1983 edition of
WMW
.

‘cave-fanciers and':
RM, ‘Notes on the Way',
Time and Tide,
5 October 1940.

‘A seed can lodge':
HY to Rosamond Lehmann, quoted in Rosamond Lehmann, ‘An Absolute Gift',
Times Literary Supplement
, 6 August 1954.

‘is about the':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 30 August 1950,
Letters to a Friend 1950–1952
, ed. Constance Babington Smith (London: Collins, 1961).