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The Girls of Slender Means
A Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally Bayley
Muriel Spark's Time
Everything in Miss Rutherford's world was about the diaphragm. The smoothness of breath and the roundness of my mouth as it opened as I spoke, hey now, Browngau. That is the microphone on the ceiling, touching my vowels, which have risen. So, Muriel Spark, a wonderful writer of time. Time set against the backdrop of war, where things happen differently with more rapidity and acceleration. Love and intimacy and friendships are counted in a different sort of way. Think of it dear as something like a piece of elastic. Up, up, up, send your vowels up to the ceiling. And that, my dear, is the ceiling.
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