Muriel Spark

Extracts from a review of Muriel Spark’s work by Ali Smith:

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How many more inquiries?
Can you tell me who is fighting?
I’m the Foreign Editor
“Mr Baldwin”
The Altar of COSTA
The Fraser Yew
[a shadow of myself]
The Auchendrane Yew
Kilneuair: Chapel of the Yew Trees
Crawford Priory (sorrow does not have a century)
Let me be clear
Wesselyan ethics
Doing words
M I D W A Y
For all little Spartans
The most philosophical of all the philosophical things
And I felt glorious
“P R O M I S C U O U S”
The Culfargie Yew
The notion of ‘through’ persisted
jeepers creepers
SHORT
A very early “selfie”
A D V I C E [as given by Mr Gordon Bennett]
‘The Persecuting Raploch’
‘The Medical Model in Mental Health’
The Abbotshall Yew
‘entertained’
language of the mind
words and numbers
A decade ago
who died . . .
“Just when we need them most”
Argyll
The Royal College of Psychiatrists and sunshine: ‘Gordon Bennett’!
Reminiscent of a circus procession of elephants
NHS Scotland: from ‘sticking plasters’ to NASA
St Columba’s Yew
Royal College of Psychiatrists: “Necessary redactions have been made”
High Park
A sailor’s grave
‘Quiet, polite and deferential’
Auld friends and visitors
“And the Gordon Bennett Trophy goes to . . .”
A little Spartan
Hope Endures
The Centre of Scotland
Hermits and Termits
Calton Hill
To advance deeper into the unknown country
The Godwits
Auntie Nana’s apple pudding
Battling and fighting words
“A wrong un’ when you see it”
GAS LIGHT
For Rabbie
‘The Italian Romanesque style is unusual for Aberdeen’
Wandering and its ‘word-shadow’ wondering
Magically reaches out . . .
“A fantastic insight”
The Narrative Controllers
Boathouse
BEV
Shapes abandoned
Artificial light
‘Home truths’
‘Let’s Go!’
If anyone wished to study . . .
We shall shine in a story that has never been told . . .
‘Truth is bigger than any one perspective’
The world was smiling (an infinite avenue)
Kelly’s cats are still homeless
Unfinished. Beautiful. Everything.
‘Even in today’s enlightened age . . .’
Andy Murray
The Homeric replaced the Britannic (sister ship of the Titanic)
As I type . . .
[I am not yet dead]
Blantyre Carvings
Images alter
Solvitur ambulando
‘We stopped listening and kept on leaping’
The road and not the sign
A Penguin
ASTROV
Beethoven’s fifth symphony
Leonard Bast’s umbrella
‘Only connect’
Howards End
E M Forster and more sunshine
E M Forster and sunshine
John Betjeman and E M Forster
Two shadows in conversation
Behind the graph lie a million stories
Big Country and Skids
‘Sign strikes moving car’
Tom Leonard
No longer at the end of a tree-lined avenue . . .
Where the world’s youth met
Howards End
Behind the graph
“An atmosphere of calm boredom”
‘The only triangular Classical house in Britain’
Tor-na-coille
‘a good first step to greater understanding’
Kellys Cats
Richard III
From Correction Wynd [long before shopping malls]
Big Country
The sky is not little
[N O T E S] The Rebel Antiquary
Why Eric matters to us all
Inchbrakie
Headless
Doctor, why are you striding about there?
‘Lady Green Sleeves’
We have moved on
Melt the bear
Backwards and forwards learning
The Rebel Antiquary
Looking through glass
The hunchback
University day
Paradoxically, has at once too little and too much plot
Cabrach
Valid to – Valid from
div-ided
‘in my post-medical landscape’
Visitors may fish the Alt Darrarie
Barack Obama said . . .
Sunny
Kailyards
Comet sweeps by earth
Values
A beacon of light
University of Oxford – Department of Psychiatry
University College London
‘The over-certain doctor insists’
Kings College London
“Strategic partnerships with industry”
‘Researching, practising, and debating mental health care’
‘The rules of science’
“Blew the study leave budget on BAP Masterclasses”
The Moss of Unthank
‘Art is a disruption’
To do the best we can
So why the hell should you be interested?
Rip it up –
‘An unseen archive’
The light is unspeakably gorgeous

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