Sybille Bedford - A compass error (1968)

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The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

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Public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

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When one's young... everything is a rehearsal. To be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.

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