Quotes from Books Do Furnish a Room
Trapnel based on Julian I loved Of love and hunger link ‘Christ, what a marvellous idea. You mean I’d call at their place and hand back the pound?’ He pondered this extravagant – literally extravagant – possibility. comment. The lights were on all over the flat, the sound of running water audible. No one seemed to be about. Widmerpool listened, his head slightly to one side, with the air of a Red Indian brave seeking, on the tail of the wind, the well-known, but elusive, scent of danger. The splashing away of the water had a calming effect. ‘As a matter of fact the message was – ”I’ve left” Of course Tolstoy’s inordinately brilliant. In spite of all the sentimentality and moralizing, he’s never boring – at least never in one sense. The material’s inconceivably well arranged as a rule, the dialogue’s never less than convincing. The fact remains, Anna Karenin’s a glorified magazine story, a magazine story of the highest genius, but still a magazine story in that it te...
