“[Larkin] himself is well aware that there are happier ways of viewing life. It's just that he is incapable of sharing them, except for fleeting moments - and the fleeting moments do not accumulate, whereas the times in between them do.”
Ibid.
Essays and reviews, At the Pillars of Hercules (1979)
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