Thread: Literary The Master by Colm Tóibín
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Old 04-07-2015, 03:23 PM   #37
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...Thanks for the interesting post, sun surfer, and the quote from James' letter to Andersen. I suppose in The Master, we saw only the beginning of the relationship between the two men. I can imagine that someone like James would need to proceed very cautiously in becoming involved with Andersen or anyone else - such dangerous ground in those days.
Definitely, but I still can't help but wonder if James could really go from as guarded as he was in The Master to as open as he was in that letter within the span of only a couple of years. Also, that letter was representative - there may have been similar letters from the time period the book was written in, though I haven't researched further so I'm not sure.
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