Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later. (Mark Haddon)

Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.

Mark Haddon

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