It is always exciting to start a new book. I could have done without the long introduction though, as I want to read ' with an open mind' . That is, if this is at all possible.
A writer is about control; in a sense is a manipulator. What does the writer want me to believe of the main character of this book, Henry James? It starts like a fairytale, but on the very first page it soon is appearant that this is about a troubled isolated elderly man. In anticipation, in dread of the reception of his play, or is it making up an account of his life, a looking back on things not accomplished?
(I'm sitting in a train, travelling for free on the National Bookweek booklet......a Dutch custom of celebrating books, literature once a year. I think I do credit to this book of The Master. How apt
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