A line Maud Newton shared from John Banville’s The Sea has the compact force of a poem: “The past beats inside me like a second heart.” Banville, whose full name is William John Banville, is an Irish novelist, screenwriter, and adapter of dramas who also writes as Benjamin Black. This is part of a complete episode.
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Via the Twitter feed of Maude Newton, here’s a quotation I really like.
This is from William John Banville, who writes as John Banville and sometimes as Benjamin Black. He’s an Irish novelist, an adapter of dramas, and a screenwriter.
And from his book The Sea comes this quotation, the past beats inside me like a second heart.
Oh, that’s great. Good stuff, right? Yeah. One sentence just knocks you out. The past beats inside me like a second heart.
Yeah, yeah.
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