"Red lips are not so red as the stained s"

“Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”

- Wilfred Owen,

Tag: dead, death, englishmen, kiss, lips, red, war,

“He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought–some adaptive gene that allowed the English to go on making blithe outdoor plans in the face of almost certain rain.”

- Helen Simonson,

Tag: englishmen, evolution, hope, rain, weather,

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