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A FEARLESS FAITH IN FICTION — THE PASSION OF THE READING MOMENT CRYSTALLISED — Empirical literary critiques from 2008 as based on purchased books.
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Des Lewis - GESTALT REAL-TIME BOOK REVIEWS
A FEARLESS FAITH IN FICTION — THE PASSION OF THE READING MOMENT CRYSTALLISED — Empirical literary critiques from 2008 as based on purchased books.
CARLTON’S FATHER by Eric Ambrose
“Oh, yes, he understood all about the ‘middle third’…”
…as I have long understood all about the ‘shadowy third’! Here, naturally, about structural bulges and carefully measured signs of two walls’ inner and outer rising and subsidence respectively, rather than psychiatric or emotional or spiritual ones. I, too, went to one of those timeless boys’ schools where we all knew and addressed each other by the surname, not the forename. We all turned out mad in the more shadowy sense, especially in the face of structural changes to society, I guess. Ever-yearning for that lost timelessness. This story of the narrator’s old school friend called Carlton whose father turns out to be a ‘mad scientist’, and it is surely mad to have written this story, and chosen this story as Aickman did as an editor, and now for me to read, even to extrapolate it publicly. The wall is down, the wall is up, and its connection with this book’s previous stories above is surely configured by every male in it being dead but somehow still alive, while Carlton’s mother and widow of his father was substantially dead!
Full context of above : https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/the-4th-fontana-book-of-great-ghost-stories-edited-by-robert-aickman/