BRACERS Record Detail for 119549

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Collection code
RA1
Class no.
730
Document no.
079965F
Box no.
6.27
Recipient(s)
Morrell, Ottoline
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1918/05/27
Form of letter
ALS
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
LBP
Notes, topics or text

A message for Morrell is contained in BR's letter of this date to Frank Russell, document .079965, record 46915, containing “But for my part I would rather be mad with truth than sane with lies” The full message is: 

"I am not sending many messages to you or Miss R. or Lady O. as I hope to see you all Wed., but please thank Lady O. very warmly for her message.

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"— Tell Lady O. I have been reading the 2 books on the Amazon: Tomlinson I loved; Bates bores me while I am reading him, but leave<s> pictures in my mind which I am glad of afterwards. Tomlinson owes much to Heart of Darkness. The contrast with Bates is remarkable: one sees how our generation, in comparison, is a little mad, because it has allowed itself glimpses of the truth, and the truth is spectral, insane, ghastly: the more men see of it the less mental health they retain. The Victorians (dear souls) were sane and successful because they never came anywhere near truth. But for my part I would rather be mad with truth than sane with lies."

Publication
SLBR 2: #314
Russell letter no.
0949
Permission
Everyone
Record no.
119549
Record created
Jan 28, 2011
Record last modified
Oct 25, 2021
Created/last modified by
blackwk