July 2014
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When Anna came down for breakfast on Tuesday 12th May, she found the room more crowded than was usual for half past eight. She showed her card marked ‘Buffet’ to the woman on duty, helped herself to fruit juice and looked for an empty table. She had to go right over by the wall to…
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“The morals of the time were, as we know, severe. But exceptions were made, often with alacrity. This was one of a handful of aristocratic principles, according to which ordinary citizens were second-class people, but the occasional middle-class officer was made personal equerry to the Emperor; according to which Jews were barred from claiming high…
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‘It is our disease’ [Clea] said ‘to want to contain everything within the frame of reference of a psychology or a philosophy. After all Justine cannot be justified or excused. She simply and magnificently is; we have to put up with her, like original sin. But to call her a nymphomaniac or to try and…
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“Try and think about the absence of God, and do realise that before you can knock at the door – and remember that it is not only at the door of the Kingdom understood in the general way, but that Christ really says ‘I am the door’ – before you knock at the door, you…
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