Epigraph: There is a history in all men's lives ... Henry IV
It is always a question whether there is any sense in taking notice of a poet's fine feelings. The poet himself has misgivings about them. Yet a man ought to feel something, at night under such a moon ... the wonderful Southern night-sky, that makes a man feel so lonely, alien ... Perhaps if St Paul and Hildebrand and Darwin had lived south of the equator, we might have known a world all different, quite different. But it is useless iffing. Sufficient that Somers went indoors into his little bungalow, and found his wife setting the table for supper ... - D. H. Lawrence, Kangaroo
