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A review by stubbygirdle
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
5.0
"'These failures of nerve are, in my experience, very often associated with certain other unattractive traits. A hostility towards the introspective tone, most often characterised by an over-use of the crushed cadence. A fondness for pointlessly matching fragmented passages with each other. And at the more personal level, a megalomania masquerading behind a modest and kindly manner...'
I was obliged to break off becasue everyone in the room was now shouting at Christoff. He in turn was holding up his blue folder, thumbing its pages in the air, ccrying: 'The facts are here! Here!'
'Of course,' I shouted above the noise, 'this is another common failing. The belief that putting something in a folder will turn it into a fact!'
This was met with a roar of laughter that had at its heart an uncoiling fury..."
- Chapter 14
I was obliged to break off becasue everyone in the room was now shouting at Christoff. He in turn was holding up his blue folder, thumbing its pages in the air, ccrying: 'The facts are here! Here!'
'Of course,' I shouted above the noise, 'this is another common failing. The belief that putting something in a folder will turn it into a fact!'
This was met with a roar of laughter that had at its heart an uncoiling fury..."
- Chapter 14