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Kirstine Epps's avatar

A delicate delivery of tightrope, and, when I have fallen… there has always been a safety net of existential explanation, so much needed in high-wire writing like this.

This is a beautiful mixture of fight club meets nick cave in novelistic form.

Just as a note to leave, here - a thank you. Hoping to leaf through a paper copy some day soon.

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Ben Murray's avatar

Thanks so much for sticking with it and your v kind comments. It means a lot!

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Kirstine Epps's avatar

It’s such a great concept! I am thinking of the book that I would choose to write through… I am thinking perhaps Daniel Deronda.

For Proust, can I ask - did you use a particular translation or were you using the original French?

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Ben Murray's avatar

Hi. I was reading in English. And I was using the original Scott Moncrieff translations, with the final volume translated by Stephen Hudson. Then I re-read, but using the Terence Kilmartin revisions of the Moncrieff editions.

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