A Place of Greater Safety

by Hilary Mantel

pot-au-feu.’

O wonderful night, vera

I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.

Tfur

COMTE

Comte

suspects free – for a reason, or out of

have one,

We have known evil since the moment of our birth but we don’t tolerate it on that account.

The situation of the poor does not change. It is just that the people who think it can change are admired by posterity.’

atavists.