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“... that fabled crowd of American expatriates in Paris between the wars, and the likeliest model for Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night.) All her life Esther envied Gerald his education and masculine privilege, while he, in turn, seems to have found her lesbianism objectionable. He and his wife mostly shunned Esther later in life – not being able, as one friend ...”

“... an idea of queer romance that has been oddly absent up until now. We see two young men, unmarried Dick and unhappily married Reggie, sharing a bed, we see them kiss, and for the first time – after nearly five hundred pages, already into the second volume of Parker’s history – the words ‘I love you’ are spoken by one man to another. The monochrome ...”

“... Printing House where, under the rule of Alejo Carpentier (more later), 100,000 copies of Moby Dick were published – slightly abridged. The Cuban publishers had cleverly rewritten Melville. You had Ishmael, you had Queequeg, you had Captain Ahab, of course, you even had Father Mapple: but you couldn’t find God in the labyrinth of the sea. Before the ...”

“... truth when he said: ‘Pear and apple in Croydon gardens/Bud and blossom and fall,/But your Uncle Dick has left his Croydon/Once for all.’ I don’t think that anyone pointed out to us children that this alluded to the fallen of the First World War, and anyway in my understanding Croydon was a place you arrived at, or came back to, rather than disappeared ...”