Date: 1992
"Nancy wondered, in her husky inner voice which, even in the deepest intimacy of her own thoughts, was turned to address a large and fascinated audience."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1995, 2002
"However, as I said last night, we just ask for this because most of us consider ourselves as chauffeurs inside our bodies, which we own in the same way as we own a car. When it goes wrong we take it to the mechanic to fix it and we do not really identify with our body, just as we do not really i...
preview | full record— Watts, Alan (1915-1973)
Date: 2000
"Emotions, atavisms, would be set aside, while reason -- the nabob of all faculties -- went about its work."
preview | full record— Amis, Martin (b. 1949)
Date: 2000
"It's the medium-sized thoughts that jump ship in an emergency."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 2000
"I dread the prospect of the pressure of death roaming through my psyche like a wildcat prospector and producing these eruptions of unwelcome insight."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 2000
"His patient was losing the memory of language without losing the sense of who he was. It suggests that the witness is more fundamental than the executive. When the one who acts collapses, there's still one to feel him collapse."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)