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The Five Quintets by Michael O'Sheel
The Five Quintets by Michael O'Sheel is an extraordinary celebratory cultural history of the last four or five hundred years. I think people are going to be studying it in a hundred years time as an extraordinary representative of the high culture of the early 21st century. Imagine one person having all that in his head and imagine them writing brilliant sonnets and haikus and terseremer and so on. Pulling it all together in this rich tapestry. And these five about literature, art and music, about economics, about politics, about science, about philosophy and theology. Tom has always enjoyed poetry ever since he was a boy.