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To Calais, in Ordinary Time To Calais, in Ordinary Time by James Meek
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“[...] one is often the last to know one’s own roof is on fire.”
James Meek, To Calais, in Ordinary Time
“And you, nobles, who are so much higher, all you have is dreams and clean fingernails and bitterness that the money you got of your fathers is never enough to cover the promises you got of your mothers.”
James Meek, To Calais, In Ordinary Time
“How people admire the courage of the chevalier in the field, charging the enemy, when true courage is the knight who defies his friends.”
James Meek, To Calais, in Ordinary Time
“We're Englishmen. For us the road always goes home again.”
James Meek, To Calais, In Ordinary Time