| "They're
gorgeously designed and produced in a small format on lovely, heavy stock,
almost as pleasant to handle as to read. At its best an essay is a series
of reflections on a subject which draws from, rather than conceals, the
writer's personality and personal preoccupations. Essays can be wildly digressive,
presenting a range of disparate images, but what you look for is an ultimate
thematic unity, a kind of tying-up which pulls all the edgy glimpses and
vistas of insight into a single, coherent whole – a kind of intellectual
Mobius strip..." |
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