Friday, 14 April 2017

A Failure of Nerve

I am now alone, which takes a bit of getting used to; one has to nerve oneself every day. It really is existential living.
Haffenden interview, Methuen 1985
Once the morning had been got through my failure of nerve would be without witnesses...
'At the Hairdresser's' (2011), Ch. 5

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