Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged?Lawrence Durrell probably wouldn't like this answer but some of us would say the place he was hanged was Golgotha. Because if by "invented the human heart" we mean, Who gave us the capacity to love the way we do?", that is the answer.
"Charles II, himself a crypto-Catholic libertine, was reputedly appalled by James's folly in matters of religion and sex: 'My brother will lose his kingdom by his bigotry, and his soul for a lot of ugly trollops.'" John Mullan
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Justine's question
Way back in volume one of the Alexandria Quartet there is moment where Darley and Justine have hurt all sorts of people through affairs of the heart. Justine muses:
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