By Bryan Magee
Concerning the writer: Bryan Magee has had a exotic profession as a school professor, song and theater critic, member of Parliament, and writer. he's popular for 2 renowned BBC tv sequence on philosophy. between his across the world acclaimed books are the tale of Philosophy, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer, and features of Wagner. He lives in London.
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6 There is a world-wide notion that the lives lived in a house become part of it. In japan they become part of its price- you have to pay more for a house in which people have been happy than for one in which tragedy has occurred. If this had been true in England the Winterborne house on Campden Hill would have been worth a good deal more. It was an unusual house for Kensington. Whereas those surrounding it all had basements designed to contain Victorian kitchens and servants the Winterborne house had nothing below the ground floor but a coal cellar.
You've already made me realize there are things to do which I haven't thought of, so please don't wait till I ask your advice. ' Horowitz gave a diffident smile. 'What you need to start thinking of now,' he said, 'is what John's going to do when he comes out of hospital. I take it you 'II want to have him with you for the time he's got left. Anyway it's not a good idea for him to be alone in some distant part of the world when he gets ill again. He mustn't go back to Beirut. I suppose he'll have to join the home staff here in London.
The buried edge of a subdued anger cut up into the surface of Hugo's voice. ' Keir turned on him with a rueful smile: 'That isn't what you said just now about Dulcie. No, I know it's easy for me to say John has to be given this impossible load to bear. But I honestly believe it's what he'd choose for himself. I feel it in the marrow of my bones. And I can't bear the thought of him going out in a cloud of lies and deception. Lies and deception from us of all people - the people above all others in the world that he knows and loves and trusts.