[lit-ideas] Re: failure
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- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:36:43 +0200
On 11-Oct-10, at 4:36 AM, Mike Geary wrote:
David Savory: This reminds me of something Michael Chabon wrote in
Manhood for Amateurs,
"A father is a man who fails everyday."
... which in turn reminds me of Iris Murdoch's character opining
something like the best one can manage in life being 'a fairly
honourable defeat'.
I can't remember now which character or in what novel this was. (I
found it once years ago, but alas have forgotten where.) I know that
the phrase is the title of one of her novels, but oddly enough it is
not in this novel (i.e., _A Fairly Honourable Defeat_) that the
conversation in which the phrase is used occurs. Can anyone help me?
Chris Bruce,
sitting with a stack of Murdoch novels
in front of him, in Kiel, Germany
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