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Nov. 5th, 2003 06:31 pmMad day with BigScaryNewInstructions from proper solicitors with shiny offices in the City. Have warped my brain trying to understand heinously abstruse stuff...
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A.S.Byatt was on Start the Week on Monday. She said she'd spent much of her writing career arguing that a life of books and education made you weird (I paraphrase, and she put it much more elegantly) but she'd now come full circle and believed that books, and education for its own sake, were important because they stopped us all turning into Nazi stormtroopers (a relevant comment in the context of the other books that were being discussed). Well, I've been a huge admirer of AS Byatt for years, but she seems to be a tad slow catching up with that one...
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A.S.Byatt was on Start the Week on Monday. She said she'd spent much of her writing career arguing that a life of books and education made you weird (I paraphrase, and she put it much more elegantly) but she'd now come full circle and believed that books, and education for its own sake, were important because they stopped us all turning into Nazi stormtroopers (a relevant comment in the context of the other books that were being discussed). Well, I've been a huge admirer of AS Byatt for years, but she seems to be a tad slow catching up with that one...