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I bought a wood [ … ]. It is not a large wood—it contains scarcely any trees, and it is intersected, blast it, by a public footpath. Still, it is the first property that I have owned, so it is right that other people should participate in my shame, and should ask themselves, in accents that will vary in horror, this very important question: What is the effect of property upon the character? [ … ]

If you own things, what’s their effect on you? What’s the effect on me of my wood?

In the first place, it makes me feel heavy. [ … ]

In the second place, it makes me feel it ought to be larger.

—E. M. FORSTER, “My Wood”