[Vwoolf] It is true . . .

[Stuart N. Clarke]

“But why was I bored?  Partly because of the dominance of the letter 'I' and the aridity, which, like the giant beech tree, it casts within its shade.  Nothing will grow there.”
(“A Room of One’s Own”)

“Beech woodland is shady and characterised by a dense carpet of fallen leaves and mast husks which prevent most woodland plants from growing.  Only specialist shade-tolerant plants can survive beneath a beech canopy.”
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/common-beech/

Stuart
(Day 199)
“She had observed that if you are poor the way to remain poor is to work hard and efficiently at some essential but unpleasantly useful task, such as washing dirty clothes or cleaning house at one shilling an hour.  It was just like the War, where a man got a shilling a day and discomfort for fighting in the front line, and two pounds a day plus field and fuel allowances for remembering the General liked Oxford marmalade for breakfast.”
ALDINGTON, Richard, "The Colonel's Daughter", The Hogarth Press, 1986 (1931), p. 191
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