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Joseph O’Neill Reads Muriel Spark

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Mural's Spark

Muriel Spark was staying in a guest house since some fat man with binoculars stared into her hotel window. In Mural's spark, as I came to understand when I read this biography of hers by Martin Stanard, it was somebody who just was constantly getting into these situations. She was constantly being sexually molested, stolen from having peeping tombs out staring at her. And she wouldn't actually walk in front of a man walking downstairs, because she was afraid that the man would push her down. It does remind me of Flairio Kona, because it's almost at the end as if it's Herst Ho who's the hero. But on the other hand

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