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Thomas Karshan: John Updike, 31 March 2005
“... them if it cannot find them. He took this, his ‘overriding thesis’, from the Swiss writer Denis de Rougemont, the author of Love in the Western World (1939), and found it ‘corroborated’ everywhere. In loving the goodness of things at rest, Updike, like Frank in ‘Natural Colour’, also wants to disturb them. It is usually morbid to speculate on ... ”