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Bucharest, Broken City

‘It is only consciousness and memory that hold together the things we sometimes see as solid.’

‘War is a narrative: it might almost be said to embody the narrative principle itself.’

‘The sea is broken,’ they say. An empty net at night: a drooping lattice of shiny nothingness, a cold and worthless tinsel mesh.

Will Boast on why Lionel Trilling’s The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent is the best book of 2000.