evanescencies

Updated: May 2, 2025

There had never been a moment in his sixty odd years of life for he was very little Uncle Mo's junior when he had not been on the eve of a lucrative permanency. It had never come; and never could, in the nature of things. Nevertheless, the evanescencies that came and went and chequered his career were not quite unremunerative, though they were hardly lucrative.

William Frend De Morgan - When Ghost Meets Ghost