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The Spire

The Spire

The Spire is a 1964 novel by the English author William Golding. "A dark and powerful portrait of one man's will", it deals with the construction of the 404-foot high spire loosely based on Salisbury Cathedral; the vision of the fictional Dean Jocelin. In this novel, William Golding utilises stream of consciousness writing with an omniscient but increasingly fallible narrator.


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“I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.”

Source: The Spire

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“At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.”

Source: The Spire

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