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Carol
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This voice I speak with these days, this English voice with it’s rounded vowels and consonants in more or less the right place — this is not the voice of my childhood. I picked it up in college, along with the unabridged Clarissa and a taste for port.
— Oct 27, 2025 08:25PM
Carol
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The novels we know best have an architecture. Not only a door going in and another leading out, but rooms, hallways, stairs, little gardens front and back, trapdoors, hidden passageways, et cetera. It’s a fortunate rereader who knows half a dozen novels this way in their lifetime….When you enter a beloved novel many times, you can come to feel that you possess it, that nobody else has ever lived there.
— Oct 20, 2025 07:03PM
Carol
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Forster’s novels are full of people who’d think twice before borrowing a Forster novel from the library.
— Oct 20, 2025 05:18PM
Carol
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About E.M. Forster: He didn’t lean rightward with the years or allow nostalgia to morph into misanthropy; …he never believed the novel was dead or the hills alive, …harbored no special hatred for the generation below or above him, did not feel that England had gone to hell in a handbasket, that its language was doomed, that lunatics were running the asylum or foreigners swamping the cities.
— Oct 20, 2025 05:13PM
