Re: 'the hours'

    Kim is quite right, of course. This is cardboard stuff - cardboard
    with hopeful, if desperate, stabs at the colourful like those strangely
    incandescent sheep tinged with sulfur (or sulphur as V would have
    written.) I suppose, too, he thought the present indicative would give
    a certain immediacy: a mistake shared by many writers in school
    magazines.

    All this within the first few lines.
    Not to mention: 'It is 1941. Another war has begun...'
    Well, it may have looked like that to our American cousins.
    But believe me, by this time, Virginia had already lived through
    almost two years of it with the wearing dreariness of rationing
    & blackout, the ever present, background thought (even beginning
    to stale by now) of invasion, the deaths up in London of several
    of her acquaintances in the steady, nightly blitz.

    As for that bloke in the red fishing jacket... In the grey, war spent
    Britain of those days I can't think of anything more factually &
    emotionally incongrous.

    The writing of novels involves, among other things, the capacity for
    empathetic imagination. Poor old Cunningham.

    Scottie B.

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