17 St Luke's Place
This was his address for a couple of months, from November 1919 to January 1920. At that time he was feeling unsure of himself and despondent: "Here am I aged 47 and I haven't really found my role in writing. All tour de forces! I am too light - an owl's feather, a night-jar's feather." He was putting the final touch to The Complex Vision.
The point of view from which we have made all our basic assumptions is the point of view that the secret of the universe is only revealed to man in rare moments of ecstasy; and that what man's reason has to do is to gather together in memory the broken and scattered fragments of these moments and out of this residuum build up and round off, as best it may, some coherent interpretation of life. (The Complex Vision)
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