Requiem for a Wren is complex, but I think of it as being fundamentally about people who were young and vibrant during that war finding that life afterward is unbearably hard and complicated and lonely and purposeless. Pied Piper is about an old man finding himself in the position of getting a large number of orphaned children to safety in World War II. And I find his two best books, Pied Piper and Requiem for a Wren were both written in his 40s and 50s, as was his more famous book On the Beach. It’s as if Shute got the thriller stuff out of his system, and was ready to write life as it was. I can’t remember which, but as I recall if you read his books in order, around the third or fourth book there’s a moment when the mediocre characters in a mediocre plot find themselves sharing a quiet moment poking at some coals in a small fire.
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Born in 1899, his early books are horrible 1920s spy thrillers. I find he tracks me theory of middle age expansiveness pretty well. Shute is a beloved author of mine, whose entire corpus I’ve read. A literary comparison springs to mind - Nevil Shute.
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In middle age, she is at her most reflective. Love, beauty, the nature of attachment, ideas of femininity and masculinity, childrearing, depression - everything. Contrast with her earlier book Condundrum (1974), which is all reflection and deep thoughts on just about everything. Almost like a description of the decor of her life. Even the subject of her wife’s dementia - surely a spur to thoughts on the nature of being - is mentioned with something close to dispassion. Much of it is about that day’s weather, favorite trees, how she talks to people in the neighborhood, being Welsh, current politics, and so on. I would say it’s almost startlingly in the moment for someone who anticipates dying at almost any time. It is almost entirely trivial, and hardly even reflective.
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She wrote it when she was 91 and 92, and it was published in 2020. I got to thinking about this reading Jan Morris’ recent book of published daily reflections, Thinking Again. Not necessarily peak quality or peak beauty - peak likeliness to concern themselves with big questions about things like sex, death, meaning, their place in the universe, and so on. Back in 90s.I have a theory about writers, which is they reach peak expansiveness around age 50 or so. James in suite in InnHotel Zaandan Athletic guys Enzo Rimenez and Louis Ricaute meet and fuck for the first time Ace Quinn, Malik Delgaty, William Seed fucking Gabor Szabo - Set 1 Work From Home - Cade Maddox, Jimmy West Draven Navarro solo Wrestlers Show Hard Sean Cody Josh, Sean fuck Dominique posing at the lake Hot AF: Heracles solo Nick W posing erotic wet in studio HHSN: Exposed Paul Morisette solo Jerking Bros! - Judah & Rigo are Back! Huge Bodybuilders Pose, Pump Iron, Show Holes, Stroke Together & Explode in Hot Duo Action!! David Salazar - Set 1 Geoffrey Cox vintage solo - Set 2 Bromo Collin Simpson, Michael Boston fuck Steve Sommers and Ale Tedesco - Slinging Aaron Trainer and Tucker Wilde fuck Sean Cody Brock, Sean fuck Sir Jet solo showing his muscles big hunk near window Alex on boat in Vinkeveen Casting Couch #305: Sergio Moreno and Juanjo Rodriguez fuck Straight Muscular Hunk Hector Casting Couch #395: Muscle Max Hilton, Xavi Duran James posing erotic for us Marty Lang erotic solo Lucre fitness model Cristiano garden solo Rogerio Proenca - Set 1 Sean Cody Brandon, Daniel fuck Hugo strong kickboxer Roderique studio with lost of oil Thago very big and muscular Tyler very big and hard Jason muscular and great abs Hugo very sweaty Beautiful Cristiano Cruzo erotic solo Dominique sexy in bed Jason nude in nature! Roderique very muscular and big Slava Petrovich - Set 5 Muscle man shows his boner Muscle hunk shows his uncut dick.