As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship (her favourite reading as a girl was Huxley and Tyndall, and they were fond of these nautical metaphors), as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do our part; mitigate the sufferings of our fellow-prisoners (Huxley again); decorate the … More 162–166: Mrs Dalloway; The Lost Art of Letter Writing; The House at the End of Hope Street; The Colour of Magic; and The Light Fantastic