When Nothing Is Sure, Everything

Family Life Itself, That Safest, Most Traditional, Most Approved Of Female Choices, Is Not A Sanctuary: It Is, Perpetually, A Dangerous Place.

England's Not A Bad Country? It's Just A Mean, Cold, Ugly, Divided, Tired, Clapped-out, Post-imperial, Post- Industrial Slag-heap Covered In Polystyrene Hamburger Cartons. 286

Scenery Can Be A Violent Stimulant.

Poverty, Therefore, Was Comparative. One Measured It By A Sliding Scale. One Was Always Poor, In Terms Of Those Who Were Richer.

Nothing Fails Like Failure