Walk in the Rain

"A change seemed to have come over the climate of England. Rain fell frequently, but only in fitful gusts, which were no sooner over than they begun again. [...] But was worse, damp now began to make its way into every house - damp, which is the most insidious of all enemies, for while the sun can be shut out by blinds, and the frost roasted by hot fire, damp steal in while we sleep; damp is silent, imperceptible, ubiquitous. Damp swells the wood, furs the kettle, rusts the iron, rots the stone. [...] Outside the house - it was another effect of the damp - ivy grew in unparalleled profusion. Houses that had been bare stone were smothered in greenery. No garden however formal its original design, lacked a shrubbery, a wilderness, a maze." Virginia Woolf. Orlando.

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Uploaded on August 20, 2010
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