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Childhood, long worshipped as a separate secret garden of innocence, has become inconvenient and embarrassing, and is now rapidly collapsing into Youth. Wired-up children as defined by advertisers and journalists haranguing working mums, are now little more than young people under five feet high.

Neal Ascherson

War is also the day after the war, when the noise stops. It's the day when what looks like a bald old beggar is helped down from the train returning from the prison camps and the small boy asks his mother: 'Is that my dad? Does he live with us?'

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On the Black Sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end.

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There are many kinds of revelation. But the most powerful is the vision which transcends the mental boundary between life and non-life, and Scotland is a place where this sort of revelation often approaches. Staring into a Scottish landscape, I have often asked myself why--in spite of all appearances--bracken, rocks, man and sea are at some level one.

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The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding.

Neal Ascherson

Neal Ascherson

Neal Ascherson

Born: October 5, 1932 (age 92)

Bio: Charles Neal Ascherson is a Scottish journalist and writer.

Known for:

Stone Voices (2002)
Black Sea (1995)
The King Incorporated (1963)
The Polish August (1981)
Games with shadows (1988)

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