Colm Toibin; Dullness as a virtue
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I've Lost My Best Friend and the Best of Fathers
ca, i'll read an extract from his diary. And this is what george wrote immediately after the unexpected death of his father in may 19 ten,. His father being edward the seventh. I am quite stunned by this awful blow bed at one o'clock. How typical is that extract? Interesting, when you set up a george forrest chan, i was expecting his extract to be kind of more stiltered, more formal but it's actually somewhat from the heart. It does feel like a dramatic incident. He's clearly not one to to put, i put too much drama into the writing. And yet, you can feel his grief, and you can
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