June282010
"I never before longed so much to know the names of things as during this visit to Ilfracombe. The desire is part of the tendency that is now growing in me to escape all vagueness and inaccuracy into the daylight of distinct vivid ideas."
— George Eliot, at the seaside in the 1850s, with George Henry Lewes and his microscope. Quote found in The Bird Hand-Book by Victor Schrager and A. S. Byatt
