Fifty years ago............................

At the book store....................................................

An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay — Lyme Bay being the largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg — and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong possibilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867.

-John Fowles, being the opening paragraph to The French Lieutenant's Woman