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The Girls of Slender Means
A Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally Bayley
Muriel Spark's the Decline of the Material World
In 1945 all the nice people in England were poor allowing for exceptions. The substance of Muriel Sparks book is really the decay of the material world, London and how that relates to being poor. Spark was very influenced by the border ballads, water scopes and minstrel sea. It's a tale of course, it's a fairy tale and she's ripping apart our sense of what is nice and what is not nice.
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