Other Fiction Benson, Stella: This Is the End, v.1 21 February 2009.

[Patricia]

Stella Benson (1892–1933)
This Is the End (1917)

A novel set in London during the First World War, written while the war was still going on. It features a lady novelist, a woman bus conductor and a variety of indecisive men.

The opening:
“This is the end, for the moment, of all my thinking, this is my unfinal conclusion. There is no reason in tangible things, and no system in the ordinary ways of the world. Hands were made to grope, and feet to stumble, and the only things you may count on are the unaccountable things. System is a fairy and a dream, you never find system where or when you expect it. There are no reasons except reasons you and I don’t know.”

The source was PG.

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