414 Henry James's Golden Bowl (with Dinitia Smith) | William Blake Preview (with John Higgs)
The History of Literature
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The Golden Bull
"I read them as almost as poetry, you know. I let the language float over me as it goes on," he says of James Bond's novels. "There has been plenty of discussion about the notion that james was gay." He began to be able to acknowledge his desires as he grew older, but could never speak publicly about them or write about them. 'Like prus with albertine, some of the characters in the novel... perhaps they express his longing and his desire'
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