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KATHERINE MANSFIELD ~ I WANT TO TALK TO TCHEKOV
“Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.”
26 April 2013
Katherine Mansfield playing the cello, Queen’s College, Harley Street, London, between 1903-1905
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