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...sharing of broad pudding with his father, and the even more lasting and important friendship with "Phil," who ironically who becomes I rank's lawyer and advisor. Even this friendship is corrupted into a business partnership. Much of the story comes through Phil's narration. through Phil the reader receives a more practical perspective of I rank, as well as relief from the explosively detailed prose surrounding I rank's narration...
Fraser scrupulously includes a chronology of important events to help those readers unfamiliar with that period in British history. But even for those without any history background, each chapter provides enough information to stand on its own for the average reader...
...gentle reader, what have we done! What have we done, that sex, and the sacred, awful communion should have become degraded into a thing of shame, excused only by the accident of procreation, or the perversion of spiritual union. It is no spiritual union. It is the living blood-soul in each being . . . What have we done, that men and women should have so far lost themselves, and lost one another, that marriage has become a mere affair of comradeship, 'pals,' or brother-and-sister business, or spiritual unison, or prostitution...
...never think about the audience. That's a dreadful thing to admit. I think very much about a reader. But I'm not able to visualize a group of readers. I simply assume there is somebody who's interested in what I'm interested in. It's important for me to tell him clearly--and entertainingly, if possible--what we're both interested...
Evans said his talent for trivia goes back to his family's dinner table conversations, when his father used to ask everyone around the table trivia questions. He was also an avid reader of the Guiness Book of World Records and the Book of Lists...