Peter Ackroyd

the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page

the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page

– Peter Ackroyd –

The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

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Talking of snakes, Mrs. Montgomery told me that once she nearly stood upon a krait – one of the most venomous snakes in India. She has been very ill at the time, suffering from acute facial neuralgia, ‘so that I didn’t care if I trod on fifty kraits. I was quite stupid with pain, and was going back in the evening to my bungalow, preceded by a servant who was carrying a lamp. Suddenly he stopped and said “Krait, Mem-sahib!” – but I was far too ill to notice what he was saying, and went straight on, and the krait was lying right in the middle of the path! The servant did a thing absolutely without precedent in India – he touched me! – he put hand on my shoulder and pulled me back. My shoe came off and I stopped. Of course if he hadn’t done that I should have undoubtedly have been killed; but I didn’t like it all the same same, and got rid of him soon after.

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