[Afamilyatwar-list] Brief Encounter

[john at johnfinch.com]

On 16.07.2018 15:18, Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list wrote:
> “...we are all lost.”
> 
> John Finch, Cuddon Return, p.202, 1979, Souvenir Press
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Dear Scott,  You have a habit of reminding me that I was once a writer.  
  I had forgotten the four words I wrote at the end of the passage on 
page 202 of Cuddon Return (NOWtitled A SHAFT OF LIGHT).    It was taken 
by me from an actual incident when I was a messenger boy in the ARP.  
Odd lines like this occasionally  crop up in different places, probably 
having stuck in my mind and then their previous usuage forgotten.  They 
were what probably prompted different critics to use the phrase "that 
doUr writer" .   Inevitable I suppose if you choose to writer about war 
and poverty.      JOHN