Author's Note: Quotation at the start is from T. S. Eliot's "Portrait of a Lady".
Habit; 31
"Now that lilacs are in bloom / She has a bowl of lilacs in her room," I read, and it gives me an idea. I know enough about flowers that I could pull it off. I just need to think it through; I just need to work out the details. I know enough about flowers, and what I don't know I can research. I have the time and the knowledge and the dedication. It's not obsession, because, see, it's dedication. I mean, obsession would have me across Tokyo right now, lurking outside someone's apartment, but I'm at home reading Eliot.
