‘Sex and death’, Finn continued, as if it might not just be the thickies in the back row who didn‘t understand Greek.
‘Or love and death, if you prefer. The erotic principle, in any case, coming into conflict with the death principle. And what ensues from that conflict. Sir.’ - P6
This was one of the differences between the three of us and our new friend. We were essentially taking the piss, except when we were serious. He was essentially serious, except when he was taking the piss. It took us a while to work this out. - P7
If Alex had read Russell and Wittgenstein, Adrian had read Camus and Nietzsche. I had read George Orwell and Aldous Huxley; Colin had read Baudelaire and Dostoevsky. This is only a slight caricature. - P10
‘"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation."’ - P17
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