[lit-ideas] Re: The Woolf and the Ouse

Virginia Stephen, as a more enlightened era might spell her name, lived in a
cottage near where the University of Sussex now can be found.  You'll find
it by taking the Piddinhoe road to the north and west out of Newhaven, and
passing through Southease.  You'll then see the National Trust sign which
leads you to the home.  If you reach Rodmell, you've gone too far.  I'd
guess the body drifted between two and four miles.

Somewhere in the near vicinity--I can't remember exactly where--is one of
the most unusual pubs I've ever come across.  It's probably long gone now,
but when I knew the area, by some quirk in the licensing laws, the "pub"
consisted of this little old lady's living room in which there rested on a
plank counter, one barrel of Harvey's Best Bitter with a tap in it.  The
lady would sell you a pint for a fraction of what everyone else charged.
But then you had to sit and drink it, keeping her company all the while, a
kind of beer-and-social-service-experience which probably should be noted by
all who want to engineer answers to generational divides.  I thought it was
great.

David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon

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