Philip Larkin
July 3, 2009
- Last night I almost finished Larkin's second novel, A Girl in Winter. Both books are psychologically unnerving in their grasp of human loneliness. I couldn't read the Girl, whose protagonist is a female version of the male protagonist in Jill, to the end yesterday: it was too disturbing. "Kathryn" has, by the war, apparently, had to flee her country and family, and come to ...
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May 12, 2009
- If every drawer in the world never got stuck, that’s how much I love you. And if each of those drawers pulled smoothly open, (and with the appropriately selected drawer pulls), and revealed that it contained a different colored marble lining, some solid deep and clear, others crackled and complex, yet others swirled or mottled or patchworks of glass, but none like any of the others, and each ...
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