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I feel a bit glutted with the style now. The coherence is good but plain and wants sharp and dazzling passages.

Nigel Reiver needs to be killed with a hammer

"and Shakespeare, and Kant, and Goethe and even Wittgenstein will be just too creaky and hard to bother with" And now we know it's not for the better but for the very extremely worse

Started this a year ago and found it very slow compared to the other Frederica novels. Took a break (as I have been reading Byatt for 2 years now alongside other books) and now have come back to it.