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“... 20th century, a poetically-minded young man from the Scottish borders called Christopher Murray Grieve walked to Ecclefechan, the birthplace of Thomas Carlyle. It wasn’t a long way, but his trek was a gesture of hero-worship to one of the greatest Scotsmen and largest egos of the previous century. He toured Carlyle’s house and, as some visitors ...”

“... Contemporary fictions are preoccupied with apocalypse, human extinction and cataclysm, but as Dorian Lynskey makes clear in Everything Must Go: Why We Are Obsessed with the End of the World, this is nothing new. Secular eschatology is young compared to its millennial Christian variations, but it still has a history two centuries long, beginning, Lynskey ...”

“... of sacrifice. Even Rama, apparently forgetting that she is not the ‘real’ Sita, begins to grieve for her. The phantasm becomes the fallen, passionate, suffering heroine. At first glance it seem that appearances will be saved by projecting guilt and anxiety onto a new shadow substitute – the phantom or eidolon – but the splitting creates a new ...”