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Tag Archives: re-reading
The Bigot Question
Beloved! It is, of course, ridiculous. This whole Tintin affair, I mean, not the impending expansion of your lineage. Perhaps your virtues, and your sensibilities regarding censorship, just decided to skip a couple of generations? Perhaps they are waiting for … Continue reading
Posted in Letter from Debbie
Tagged academia, Booker Prize, Comedy, E M Forster, Howard Jacobson, literature, parlour games, re-reading
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Semi-Sincere Apologies
My Dear, So what you are telling me is that you wrote me an observation a few weeks back. That I never responded to your observation at the time. And that I then trounce out the same observation as my … Continue reading
Posted in Letter from Rose
Tagged Coetzee, Disgrace, Josephine Tey, re-reading, The Daughter of Time
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A Book Half Read is a Life Half Lived 