October 15, 1923
Hogarth House
I am now in the thick of the mad scene in
Regent’s Park. I find I write it by
clinging as tight to fact as I can, & write perhaps 50 words a
morning. This I must re-write some day.
I think the design is more remarkable than in any of my books. I feel I can use up everything I’ve ever
thought. . . . I’ve only been feeling my
way into it—up till last August anyhow.
It took me a year’s groping to discover what I call my tunneling
process, by which I tell the past by installments, as I have need of it. This is my prime discovery so far; & the
fact that I’ve been so long finding it, proves, I think, how flase Percy
Lubbock’s doctrine is – that you can do this sort of thing consciously.
(D2 272)
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