Vanessa's Sketches in Pen and Ink and her recollections of Fry; what I liked best is her observation, "The world of dealers was open to me now and though they are a race I quickly grew to detest and have never seen any reason to like better, still Roger had a way of making them disgorge things one wanted to see."

When I first discovered Bloomsbury in my 20s this was an affectation I quickly assumed which was not practical since unlike Roger or Vanessa I had no means of support, no trust fund, however meager, to sustain these opinions. Spiritual superiority needs to be fed by bread and wine which of course they never understood but which makes the whole rarified state of mind syndrome so enchanting.