How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral problem posed by the Allied air offensive should at least consider the moral problem that would have been posed if the German civilian population had not suffered at all.
Clive JamesTwin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.
Clive JamesShe was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
Clive James