The Society of Others by William Nicholson

Author:William Nicholson [Nicholson, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-385-67305-1
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2006-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

The chill dank day fades into a freezing night. Imprisoned with my companions in our back room, I let myself be drawn into a long evening that unfolds in the most unexpected way. Here I am in a brothel, where the working girls join us when business is slow, but the night’s delight is not sex. It’s poetry.

The matter of what to do with me has been discussed and settled. Eckhard will go with me part of the way, as far as the village where he has urgent business. There the Society will provide a second guide, who will take me to the border. We will travel on foot. We are to leave in the morning.

Now Eckhard produces a small dark-blue volume that turns out to be the Oxford Book of English Verse, an old and well-thumbed India-paper edition from 1930. He shows me the dedication.

To

The President Fellows and Scholars

of

Trinity College Oxford

a house of learning

Ancient liberal humane

and my most kindly nurse

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