Cantles
Frank Kermode, 17 June 1982
“... the oracle; or a footprint in a cave in the Auvergne, or a lateen sail of a Nile riverboat; or Homer, who is repeatedly and lovingly invoked or remembered. Wonder is Golding’s mode of knowledge. ‘The bare act of being is an outrageous improbability,’ he says, describing himself as a man prone to ‘a sense of continual astonishment’ – rather like ... ”