Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7029

Lawrence [3]

I am sending you Pansies. Before sending I opened it at random and found this –

I can’t stand Willy Wet-leg,

can’t stand him at any price.

He’s resigned, and when you hit him

he lets you hit him twice.

Well, well, this the bare, rockily, direct poetry? God help us!

P.S. I think Dara could do the companion of that in his lighter moments! This is the sort of things to which theories lead even a man of genius.

2 July 1936