Sunday 6 May 2018

Ali Smith: Winter


Second seasonal novel in a series examining responses to Brexit.

That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.


That's one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once.


The people in this country are in furious rages at each other after the last vote, she said, and the government we’ve got has done nothing to assuage it and instead is using people’s rage for its own political expediency. Which is a grand old fascist trick if ever I saw one, and a very dangerous game to play. And what’s happening in the United States is directly related, and probably financially related.


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