Sunday, April 12, 2020

Lockdown reading

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I’m seeing too many recommendations for easy or comfort reading: I seem to swing the other way: when I was in for root canal work I was reading Siegfried Sassoon’s War poems. It was an almost instinctive reaction, not calculated at all, to make my trepidation and potential pain trivial. Since lockdown I’ve been reading Franz Werfel’s account of the Armenian genocide “Forty Days of Musa Dagh” which has a similar anaesthetising effect against the inconvenience and boredom... as well as being a very very good book.
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