‘I desire no future that will break the ties of the past…’
Book Review: Closing Time
‘For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive….’
Book Review: The Other Side of Truth
‘The truth is the truth. How can I write what’s untrue?’
Book Review: The Moon is Down
‘The flies have conquered the flypaper…’
Book Review: Franny and Zooey
‘I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody…’
Book Review: Shakespeare – The World as Stage
‘We all recognise a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don’t really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at once the best known and least known of figures…’
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Book Review: Private Peaceful
‘Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow…’
Book Review: Letters From The Lighthouse
‘We won’t be beaten by hate…’
Book Review: In Patagonia
‘The Golden Age ended when men stopped hunting, settled in houses and began the daily grind…’
Book Review: The Haunting of Hill House
‘No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality…’
