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‘There’s a sorrow in you,’ I said, ‘just as
there is in all of us. This sorrow clothes itself in various memories. I
find it’s best to let the thing get on to the paper. You can always tear
it up later if you want to.’
from My Tango with
Barbara Strozzi
Bloomsbury, London (2007), page 124
I tried to understand what it is that’s
between Phil and me. If anything. No, I can feel something. Mirrors.
Planets. Are we like two planets circling each other? No, one would be in
orbit around the other. The smaller one. Is Phil in orbit around me?
from
My Tango with Barbara Strozzi
Bloomsbury, London (2007), page 51
Extracted from Mr Hoban’s most recent novel and dropped on 4 February 2008
in celebration of his eighty-third birthday.
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