“Tiny Eleanor in her black coat, is dinkily perfect, like a woman carved on a mechanical clock, nodding, lifting her hand, in jerky greeting. Her eyes might slice jealously through any gaze between Clem and Corin, but they can't sever the meaning of those gazes.” RomanceHeartbreakGuiltMistakesMysteriousMelancholySatisfyingPost WarEmotional ComplexityFamilial Bonds Book:A Particular Man Source: A Particular Man
“I lost God in the jungle. Before that, I had the normal sort of watery English Christianity. Out there some men got more religious, others lost it. What kind of god would allow this? etc.” GriefMemoryYearningUnpredictableDualitySolacePsychological TensionHidden PastFamilial BondsWar Aftermath Book:A Particular Man Source: A Particular Man