Like anything that's any good, it has about twenty different meanings.

That's a taste of old times, if ever there was one. Makes one ready to fight anybody.

Poetry always rather disturbs me. I think I shall have to give it up--like drink.

221, 223 A Soldier's Art #AnthonyPowellTogether #Stringham

"I still have some gratitude, even if no general goodwill towards mankind. I like gratitude, because it's the rarest of virtues and a very difficult one to cultivate." 182

A Soldier's Art #AnthonyPowellTogether #Stringham now older and wiser. #Gratitude #Luck

splenetic - a person who easily becomes angry or annoyed, or their behavior. #Anthonypowelltogether #etymologynerd #Stringham