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I was impressed by the phrase because it so manifestly expresses the spirit of your work: the struggle of living and the Beckett-like sense of “I can’t go on; I’ll go on.” The beautiful performances of your casts express that urge to move on...with so little expectation that, inevitably, anger erupts.<div><br></div><div>The fact that those four words are given by the story’s narrator rather than by any of the characters gives further impact to the idea.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><br><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Monday, July 16, 2018, 2:25 PM, john@johnfinch.com wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div dir="ltr">On 16.07.2018 15:18, Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list wrote:<div class="yqt8668480930" id="yqtfd62889"><br clear="none">> “...we are all lost.”<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> John Finch, Cuddon Return, p.202, 1979, Souvenir Press</div><br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> Afamilyatwar-list mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu" href="mailto:Afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu">Afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://mailman.baylor.edu/mailman/listinfo/afamilyatwar-list" target="_blank">https://mailman.baylor.edu/mailman/listinfo/afamilyatwar-list</a><br clear="none">Dear Scott, You have a habit of reminding me that I was once a writer. <br clear="none"> I had forgotten the four words I wrote at the end of the passage on <br clear="none">page 202 of Cuddon Return (NOWtitled A SHAFT OF LIGHT). It was taken <br clear="none">by me from an actual incident when I was a messenger boy in the ARP. <br clear="none">Odd lines like this occasionally crop up in different places, probably <br clear="none">having stuck in my mind and then their previous usuage forgotten. They <br clear="none">were what probably prompted different critics to use the phrase "that <br clear="none">doUr writer" . Inevitable I suppose if you choose to writer about war <br clear="none">and poverty. JOHN<div class="yqt8668480930" id="yqtfd28454"><br clear="none"></div></div><blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div>
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