Ralph & Frances Partridge
Ham Spray House Wiltshire
"...at others, that it has thrown out couch-grass roots to undermine our peace of mind, invisibly creeping and choking the sources of vitality and enjoyment. We live in the present, as if each day might be our last, and to some degree in the past. The future is so nebulous that one barely thinks about it, and those who die...seem to have forfeited nothing we have ourselves. Late tonight I thought again about invasion, not in the abstract but as a solid possibility."
Frances Partridge - War Diary - 1941
Her reflection here on here feelings about WWII and the possibility of invasion is also applicable to how we reflect on La Peste in our time now.
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