On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
タグ: night, great, me, memories

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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
タグ: i-believe, church, believe, house
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
タグ: never, fear, me, death
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
タグ: why, admire, only, man
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
タグ: think, people, you, truth
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
タグ: great, you, history, morning
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