Lunatics, Lovers and Poets

‘“I have always felt a deep connection with Rocinante: sat upon, ignored, beaten and humiliated by fools with more famous names… ”

his Ars Poetica Horace said that a work should not be published until ten years after it has been completed; but he wasn’t living in an age dominated by competent, inoffensive novels with redemptive endings.

My mother’s great joy comes from Julia and I seeing each other, sitting together around the dining room table under her satisfied gaze, as if the two of us being there, by her side, were a guarantee of something, of some sort of continuity, beyond plans and personal wishes, something transcendent that will last forever.

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