Colm Toibin; Dullness as a virtue
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What if the Virgin Mary Said, What Would Her Voice Be Like?
The testament of mary is a re-imagining the life of the virgin mary. It's enough to take on a great religious figure an eyecorners, as you did in this book. I wondered how much thought you gave that when you embarked on it. Often something like that can start from something very small. And so i worked over those weeks in that room on that text. And i did feel i was breaking glass.
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