![]() ![]() Bennett’s writing rallies against lazily accepting the tired and the habitualised. It focusses on the ordinary and the everyday in a way that asks you to see these things through new eyes. This little passage leads on to one of my favourite little phrases in the book, the idea of being “cheese appeased.”Īs should be clear from this small excerpt, this book is wonderfully written. Two tapered slices of the purest cheese I’d eat forthwith and this would briefly alleviate me of all other pressing duties so I would gaze awhile out the windowpane and I would not deign to get involved in anything, not one single blessed thing out there. It is often written in an expansive, mock-heroic style, using elevated language to describe the mundane and the trivial: Pond is a collection of short stories, or perhaps a fragmented novel, centred on an unnamed female narrator living alone in a cottage in Ireland. ![]()
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