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Joseph O’Neill Reads Muriel Spark

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Importance of Domination in the Alps

O'Neill: The clock on the roof is a symbol of Frau Lüblancke's domination over Här Stroll. O'Neill: She just really wants to drive him down. It seems personal. Is it personal? I don't know. But then obviously, as we find out, daily from the newspapers, glaciers eventually melt. And her time, her ice age, her domination will end.

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