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The long letting go could be the essence of parenthood
He was waiting for existence to part like a curtain, for a hand to extend and help him step through into a paradise regained.
He had reached that point – late thirties was common – when one’s parents set off on their downhill journey.
How much easier it would have been if she had deserted her son and husband to write a mediocre novel.
Great art excuses cruelty?
Was it possible, to throw his life away in order to be polite?
How easy it was to drift through an unchosen life, in a succession of reactions to events.
You think of your child as your dependant. Then, as he starts to pull away, you discover that you are a dependant too.
Lawrence could have no clear view of his mother until he had read her,
Really?
That Guardian fellow was right. They had it coming.
Is this Eaton or some such, opining on 9/11?
Self
Will? (Nasty piece of work)
As late as the mid-nineties it was difficult to discover facts about anything or anyone, and no one minded at the time.
The larger subject was the ruthlessness of artists. Do we forgive or ignore their single-mindedness or cruelty in the service of their art? And are we more tolerant the greater the art?
No and yes, though we shouldn't be.
Time’s gathering compression was a commonplace among his old friends.
wines he had bought for around £15 in London started at 200 euros. These were banal tourist gripes.
Writes someone with money.
What looked like piety was enforced conformity within a totalitarian mind-state.
Socialist, know thyself!
But the staff, kindly as always, were bound by law to their medical duty to keep her alive in pain until she dropped.
This is self-serving bollocks.
There they were, those people from 2018, expert and tolerant,
Tolerant? Ha!
He was just an old Labour hack.
Roland, or the writer? Endless lecturing from my 'betters', no doubt!
But Rüdiger had always been a man of the left, gave generously to Amnesty and other charities.
A man of the left, FFS.
The retreating effects of alcohol dragged on their spirits.
