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Flowers, how wonderful they are: I have a bunch of tulips, so gay,of so many colours: orange, pink, different pinks, a strange one– pure brick red – which is my favourite; so sensitive to warmth;the tulip with the strange hot smell which seems to stir deepmemories, long-forgotten cities in a desert of sand, blazingsky, sun that is a torment; mauve ones, cool and insensitive.Living their closed, unrevealed life; unexposed, but keepingtheir beauty of form till the very end, longest of all, dark ones,opening and closing in slow rhythm.S.J. Peploe