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Under the Net

Iris Murdoch

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1954
Pages
Pages 290

Four drunk men climb over the parapet on a summer night and let the Thames take them, warm and filthy and lit from the bridges, and for a few minutes nobody in the water is explaining anything. That is the whole trouble with Jake Donaghue.

Indeed it is something to which we can never get close enough, however hard we may try as it were to crawl under the net.
Under the Net, Iris Murdoch

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