taradiddle

Updated: May 25, 2025

Here we are, amazing mysteries both of us in any case; and all round us are scores of books, dealing just with life, pure, candid, and unexpurgated; and there's not a single one among them but reads like a taradiddle. Yet grope between the lines of any autobiography, it's pretty clear what one has got a feeble, timid, creeping attempt to describe the indescribable.

Walter De la Mare - The Return