Posted by Ian E-N on November 05, 2004 at 10:16:01 from 148.88.0.8 user IanEN.
In Reply to: Re: Girls' School Stories - Vol II posted by andyb on November 04, 2004 at 20:22:43:
not the impression I received from the reviews.
"Life is too short to read Philip Larkin's juvenilia. Reading Trouble
at Willow Gables and Michaelmas Term at St Brides is up there with
stuffing mushrooms: there is a part of me which, as I read - or stuff -
has precognition of the moment of my death and the very last conscious
thought, which is the blinding awareness of the precious hours wasted
on Larkin's schoolgirl stories or mushrooms when I might have done
something more positive with them such as sleeping or filing my nails."