The Child in Time, by Bertaluci

I abandoned these clostrophobic tales, and all the subjects that have interested me since science, history, how it is to be here. Now became myself dominant ideas or ambitions or shapedwhat every time i sat down to start a new novel. There's a marvellous bit in a sobello novel, hetzog, when moses goes into the bathroom to wash his hands before dinner, and looks into the mirror. Tha at press in on me. I was now prepared to let the world flood in. That's when i think i was set on the road properly.