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Mausoleum of their marriage
By any estimate, it was a long time until judgement day, and until then the truth that only Marshall and his bride knew at first hand, was steadily being walled up within the mausoleum of their marria… more »
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Mausoleum of their marriage
Nathan Hobby wrote 6 months ago: By any estimate, it was a long time until judgement day, and until then the truth that only Marshall … more »
The twins' note
Nathan Hobby wrote 6 months ago: We are gong to run away becase Lola and Betty are horid to us and we want to go home. Sory we took s … more »
Storytelling as the pleasure of minaturisation
Nathan Hobby wrote 6 months ago: Writing stories not only involved secrecy, it also gave her all the pleasures of minaturisation. A w … more »
Idealistic politics is all about the future
Nathan Hobby wrote 7 months ago: We couldn’t grasp it, we couldn’t draw ourselves into the present. Instead we wanted to … more »
Photography
Nathan Hobby wrote 7 months ago: It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative len … more »
Ian McEwan - Atonement
fyreflybooks wrote 7 months ago: 110. Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001) Length: 351 pages Genre: Literary fiction; 2001 Booker Prize sho … more »
Booker 2007 - McEwan and Me
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lizzysiddal wrote 10 months ago: It’s a long-standing relationship of sorts. I’ve been reading McEwan for the best part … more »
He would be a better doctor for having read literature
Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: For this was the point, surely: he would be a better doctor for having read literature. What deep re … more »
Was everyone else really as alive as she was?
Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: Was everyone else really as alive as she was? For example, did her sister really matter to herself, … more »
Air travel
Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: Flung across the Atlantic at five hundred feet a second, you submit to the folly because everyone el … more »
Addicts
Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: It can’t just be class or opportunities - the drunks and junkies come from all kinds of backgr … more »
Seeing the best in people
Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: In Leon’s life, or rather his account of his life, no one was mean-spirited, no one schemed or … more »
Self consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.
Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: (102) … more »
Bad at arguments
Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: She is especially bad at arguments. She has never been able to accept the rules of engagement which … more »
It's possible to ask to be left alone
Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: Theirs is the kind of relationship in which it is perfectly possible to ask to be left alone without … more »
Untangling a relationship
Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: Who you get, and how it works out - there’s so much luck involved, as well as the million bran … more »
The experience of love
Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: However much I thought about Clarissa, in memory or in anticipation, experiencing her again, the fee … more »
Watching the news
Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: To calm myself I turned to that evening clinic of referred pain, the TV news. Tonight, a mass grave … more »
A pointless death
Nathan Hobby wrote 1 year ago: Logan’s death was pointless - that was part of the reason we were in shock. Good people someti … more »
