"There was an Old Testament ring to the forewarnings, an air of plague of boils and deluge of frogs that suggested a deep and constant inclination enacted over the centuries to believe that one was always living at the End of Days, that one's own demise was urgently bound up with the end of the world and therefore made more sense or was just a little less irrelevant."
Yes! Great! Tick in the margin! Here is a great novelist at the height of his powers summing up perfectly the atavistic...
Published on March 18, 2010 00:27