half-snake

Updated: May 3, 2025

And yet it was only the merest chance, the merest run of bad luck but it leaves him, you say, with the impression that we are flawed?" "A terrible flaw. His opinion is that there is a deep coldness in women. In the brain, too, he feels them mortally unsound. Mad and cold he says now of all women, and therefore as unlike a normal man as a creature half-lunatic, half-snake."

Enid Bagnold - The Happy Foreigner