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Beginnings and Ends

04 Thursday Feb 2021

Posted by la Clarina in Books, Scribbling

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Captain Fracasse, endings, R. L. Stevenson, Théophile Gautier, Weir of Hermiston

Would you object very much to some more slight gloominess? Or perhaps it won’t be so terribly gloomy by the time we’re done – but let us talk of endings and beginnings, and Stevenson. I’ve always liked this thing that Stevenson wrote in a letter written from Samoa to J.M. Barrie:

If you are going tho make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

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