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Tag: Muriel Spark

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 11, 2019December 4, 2024

Reasons and half-reasons like this . . .

A passage from ‘A Far Cry From Kensington’ by Muriel Spark. Artwork: modified “Divide” by Pete Sirna.

Categories: Two culturesTags: Muriel Spark, reading
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 11, 2019December 4, 2024

From those first few moments

A passage from ‘A Far Cry From Kensington’ by Muriel Spark. Artwork: by Rachel at Cornton Nursery, for her daddy who was in hospital.  

Categories: This is Not yesterdayTags: Muriel Spark
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 11, 2019December 4, 2024

I heard the silence

A passage from ‘A Far Cry From Kensington’ by Muriel Spark.

Categories: Two culturesTags: Muriel Spark, reading
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 11, 2019December 4, 2024

So great was the noise during the day

A passage from “A Far Cry From Kensington” by Muriel Spark.

Categories: Philosophy, Two culturesTags: Muriel Spark
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 11, 2019December 4, 2024

Making light of the moment

This is the first of a few passages that delighted me in “A Far Cry From Kensington” by Muriel Spark. The date is circa 1954.

Categories: Poems, Two culturesTags: London, Muriel Spark
By Hole Ousia Posted on February 11, 2018December 5, 2024

A Far Cry from Kensington

The Sunday papers have had lots of interesting pieces on Muriel Spark on the centenary of her birth:  

Categories: Two culturesTags: Muriel Spark
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 28, 2018December 5, 2024

Art is an act of daring

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

Categories: Folk worth talking about, ScotlandTags: Ali Smith, Muriel Spark, reading

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