Notoriously eccentric — among other things she covered her face in white power —the English Catholic writer Caryll Houselander . The letter to Archie Campbell-Murdoch, from 1943, appears in Letters of Caryll Houselander.
I truly believe that the best way to benefit humanity is to make faces in the bus — slightly mad faces, or puttings out of the tongue suddenly at the person opposite. Think of the thrill that gives to countless uneventful lives to whom nothing ever happens.
They can tell everyone for weeks that they saw a mad woman on the bus, and they can exaggerate this to almost any extent. This form of charity can be practiced on the way to work.
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