The New Life by Tom Crewe

Author:Tom Crewe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2023-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

This was the fire that leapt in his imagination. That pitched behind his eyes. He wrote with more daring than he lived. He began to attract controversy. Catherine suffered. She felt, she said, under suspicion: for what woman’s husband wrote on subjects like these, and with such urgency of enthusiasm? But he found that he no longer cared a great deal about this. He was still almost entirely chaste; all was turned inward. Occasionally the flame would out. A hesitating flame, lighting on some figure. Yet he was essentially chaste. He had become an observer, an intelligence, a reader in obscure places—but also an agitator, stumping in his mind. And this was his undoing. For he was seized by the desire to write his book, A Problem in Greek Ethics. And he had done it, despite the madness of the enterprise: filled page after page with self-accusing sentences. This was it, the sign—the flag of surrender waved over his collapsing defenses. He gave the book to Mark. He went down to the Serpentine, and was met by Frank.

O you entirely possess me,

O that you and I escape from the rest

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