"There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand."
---Charles Morgan
***Forgotten novelist alert***
Charles Langbridge Morgan (22 January 1894 – 6 February 1958), was an English-born playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage. The main themes of his work were romantic love, mysticism, and a longing for the timeless and sublime through telling the stories of idealistic and artistic protagonists.
Read more about him and his work here and especially here.
And, if I may add a URL, here: http://www.charleslmorgan.org/ -- the first website specifically dedicated to CM. (I, for my sins, run it, as best I can. . .)
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