With A, then B, then C: The Sexual Life of Iris M.
Susan Eilenberg, 5 September 2002
Murdoch denied that she used her novels to stage her ideas, pretending to ‘an absolute horror of putting theories or “philosophical ideas” as such into my novels’, insisting: ‘I might put in things about philosophy because I happen to know about philosophy. If I knew about sailing ships I would put in sailing ships.’ This is disingenuous.