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Beyond the city there must be a rubbish heap of diseased stones.

‘When will this hellish patience come to an end?’ — Kuchlavok’s letter to comrades, August 1917

‘[E]xplanation of the irrational is replaced by tabooed luxuriance within it.’ — Bridget Fowler

‘I am only infallible if I speak infallibly but I shall never do that, so I am not infallible.’ — John XIII

What is the nightmare from which a distressed cat abruptly wakes? From what figure does it flee?

‘I have always liked the hard and sequinned sheen of London streets at night, their empty dockyard look.’ — V.S. Pritchett, ‘When My Girl Comes Home’