Misery

D-DAY: DH begins to pay rent at 30% of gross salary

Net salary received today (weekly). . . . 618.00
Rent + water due today (fortnightly). . . 634.00
Going out backwards by . . . . . . . . . . . 16.00

Only art and literature can express DH's feelings now.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual
expenditure rent nineteen nineteen six, result
happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual
expenditure rent twenty pounds ought and six, result
misery. (Charles Dickens' Micawber Principle)

Picasso: Weeping woman