![]() Specific words are so carefully chosen like a rifleman repeatedly hitting the bullseye. How to continually write perfect simple sentences that convey so much with so few words. Just have to say the detail in this story is exemplary. I hope you’re all doing well as we get started with another month! The fifth exchanged their gray shirts for drip-dry white, which they scrubbed in the showers and draped on plastic hangers. The fourth-years had their own common room. Third formers were allowed long trousers and a tie with diagonal, rather than horizontal, stripes. The youngest, the first- and second-years, were the paupers and had nothing at all. ![]() ![]() Why bestow new-fashioned favors on the youngest when they themselves had tolerated privations to earn the perks of greater maturity? It was a long, hard course. It made the older boys conservative guardians of the existing order, jealous of the rights they had earned with such patience. ![]() In the meantime, we have this to get us interested!īerners, like most schools, was held together by a hierarchy of privileges, infinitesimally graded and slowly bestowed over the years. ![]() I have an advanced copy, but I haven’t started it yet I like McEwan in general, so I’ll be giving it a go. “A Duet” is a piece of Ian McEwan’s forthcoming Lessons, which will be out in about a month. I’m sure some of you won’t mind too much, because this is an excerpt and not its own piece of short fiction. It’s been a busy week, so I’m posting this late. ![]()
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