Monday, 23 October 2017

Reading Javier Marias' Written Lives ...



I'm reading Javier Marias' Written Lives

It's like reading Aubrey's Brief Lives

Quirky aperçus divert me - 

I picture Malcolm Lowry playing the ukulele, Turgenev dancing the can can - 

Rilke's waiting to hear God start talking to him again - 

 Conrad's got a cigarette clamped between his fingers - 

James Joyce is wringing his hands when he hears thunder - 

I wonder what quirky minutiae will illumine my life - 

Perhaps it will be my belief in UFOs - 

Perhaps it will be the way I park the car - 

All I ask for is no more than three pages - 


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Monday 23 October 2017

The Old School House
East Stoke
Dorset 



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