Unspeakability

John Lanchester

  • The Magician’s Doubts by Michael Wood
    Chatto, 252 pp, £18.00, August 1994, ISBN 0 7011 6197 3

Musing over Don Juan, Byron asked his banker and agent Douglas Kinnaird a rhetorical question: ‘Could any man have written it – who has not lived in the world? – and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis à vis? – on a table – and under it?’

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