The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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