31 May
31 May
31 May 1920
2 Portland Villas, Hampstead - London
[. . .] But then there is her plot to be taken into account. It is very slight. She has simply traced a ring round the most important, the most defined anti-Potterites and Potterites. Potterism is the strongest power that rules England today; the anti-Potterites are that small handful of people, including ourselves, whose every breath defies it. And what happens to them? Here those small fishes begin to grow very active, to flirt their fins, flash to the surface, leap, make bubbles. This createsa strange confusion in our minds. For the life of us we can't for the moment see, when all is said and done, which are which. Is it possible that we ourselves are only another manifestation of the disease? Who has won, after all? Who shall say where Potterism ends? It is easy to cry: ‘If we must be flung at anything, let us be flung at lions.' But the very idea of ourselves as being flung is an arch-Potterism into the bargain. [Review of Potterism by Rose Macaulay in the Athenaeum, 4 June 1920]