The smell of a tune
Mick, the young girl who for me is the heart of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, has a passion...
Sleep and scimitars
What a keen metaphor for the bright light piercing of shut-eye night.
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On hearing Beethoven for the first time
Carson McCullers' heroine, the boyish, quirky, imaginative Mick, comes from a rough and tumble poor background. Her only exposure to...
A chattering cataract
Carson McCullers captures, or creates, an astonishing spectrum of nuance in how people communicate, with voices, faces, bodies.
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Music in the inside room
One of the most touching aspects of this novel is the young girl Mick’s reaction to music she has never...
Shaping words and forming letters
It’s unusual to read such a detailed comment on the act of writing by hand. But once you have the...
On hearing Beethoven for the first time
Listening time: 4 minutes. A favourite quotation from a favourite novel, Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely...
Scrouged together
I had never heard this word before and it isn't in my dictionary, but it seems to mean crowded or...
The worst thirst
May you be spared such thirst, let alone any marching army.
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