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Muriel Spark Remembrance by Katherine Weber on Maud's Blog

A lovely Muriel Spark remembrance by Katherine Weber on Maud's Blog:

Muriel Spark’s novels offered me a sense of the possibilities for writing with what Flannery O’Connor called a reasonable use of the unreasonable. Oh,that crackpot narrative voice! Spark broke all the rules. She surprised you on every page, she passed swift and harsh judgment, she spun the needle on the big moral compass fast and furiously, she was very funny, and she wrote those elegant sentences, those sentences that glittered like broken glass on the pavement, with paradoxical heart and a cool control.

You'll click over there for more loveliness, I hope. I am not familiar with Muriel Spark's novels, myself, but Ms. Weber makes me want to become so. I shall not hate myself for being so late at the table. And neither shall you. We will simply read and know and appreciate. Okay? I'm listening to “Shake Break Bounce” by The Chemical Brothers from the album Push The Button on .

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