July 18 Sunday

Got up & helped Harry with washing-up, and prepared the stove-fire and put in the roast. But was then driven back to bed with intense toothache & neuralgia: the toothache apparently from a tooth behind the one Trace has been attending to.
Aspirins, hot bottle1; gravy on bread for lunch.
Managed to write 4 pp [pages] of Ghost before it got too bad.
Mr. Trace consented to see me at 5. Found an abscess under the other tooth, an eye tooth. Got an anaesthetist to gas me & removed most of it with difficulty. It was rotten & fast in the bone[RG]bone.[RG] Afterwards I wept & went home to bed: removed a piece of casing with a forceps & felt better. I said, on coming out of the anaesthetic that the way wisdom teeth were fitted into the mouth made one a Manichean, sceptical of a wise Personal benevolent God.[RG] Finished Ch. [Chapter] 7 of Ghost.

Editorial Notes

1hot water bottle eds.