For young Andrew Cusack, should he ever care to read this journal.
Bertrand Russell and T. S. Eliot: their dialogue—
"The window of the room in which Eeldrop and Appleplex talk opens to a view which includes a police station. Again Eliot delineates the two men on the basis of thought– the divided mind. Eeldrop is entranced by 'the smoky smell of lilac, the gramophones, the choir of the Baptist chapel, and the sight of three small girls playing cards on the steps of the police station.'"
The story from which this is taken is "Eeldrop and Appleplex," by T.S. Eliot.
The "three small girls playing cards" suggest the three Fates. For a less subtle illustration, see William Blake's "Hecate, or the Three Fates"–
For a more cheerful (and Catholic)
Hecate figure, see the oeuvre of
Alyssa Milano.