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...They constantly lose themselves in self-indulgent speculation on history and politics and never engage wholly in their emotion. There are no evident reasons, nothing rooted in the characters that spell the end of relationships; they just end. Mark dumps Celeste because he wants to be with the younger Gwyn, but there’s no change in his attitude towards Celeste. When asked what happened to Celeste, he says “nothing,” and it’s true. The reader can’t get involved in this, can’t grow attached...
...sense of serenity that not even the booming chorus of All You Need Is Love from the '60s British art show downstairs can shatter. Displayed along glass cabinets usually reserved for sacred scroll paintings are mere pots of wood-fired clay. But through the alchemy of her kiln, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott has lent these objects a heavenly aura. Before your eyes, her luminous glazes seem to fade to white; porcelain lips quiver. When two Buddhist monks enter the room, they are drawn to the pieces like moths to a flame, which is hardly surprising. If Tasmania's Les Blakebrough...
...already speak some English and also perceive Britain as more tolerant. "As long as there is the feeling in Kurdish Iraq that Britain is the place to be - there are lots of jobs, you can work, you are looked after - then they will want to come," says Dover M.P. Gwyn Prosser...
...Cousins (a.k.a "Scozz,") the only person in the world to have read and understood a Richard Tull novel. (He stole it from a hospital library where it was making the patients sicker.) Scozz, "a true professional, someone who hurts people in exchange for cash," agrees to help Richard "fuck Gwyn...
...course, things don't exactly turn out as planned. Scozz doesn't prove to be much help at all. As Richard tries everything: wife-stealing, scandal-mongering and slander to get Gwyn out of the picture, he slowly goes mad. Naturally, Gwyn foils every one of Richard's attempts at revenge. In the end, Gwyn exacts his own revenge for Richard's petty crimes, and he gets the girl too. This climatic scene is a little much, and, after 300-something pages, a bit of a let-down...