“This is not a letter”
From Katherine Mansfield.
“I adore ice-cream”
Also from “The Doves’ Nest.”
“C'est un très beau Monsieur"
From “The Doves’ Nest.”
“Sleeping was her latest discovery”
From “Marriage à la mode.”
“Smudged-looking poems”
In a Katherine Mansfield story.
“Fried or boiled?”
From “The Daughters of the Late Colonel.”
“Not playing, but banging”
Someone is tuning a piano.
“But he never wore a collar”
I can imagine these sentences in one of the early stories of Joyce’s Dubliners. It’s the plainness, and the free indirect discourse.
A hair-tidy and pencil rays
One could learn a lot about how to describe from reading Katherine Mansfield.
“Tortoiseshell cats and champagne”
A passage from Katherine Mansfield.