Sunday, February 24, 2008

Thomas H Cook.

Thomas H Cook is a gloomy so-and-so, as well as being a tremendous fiction writer. He is right up there in the laughter stakes amongst the likes of Thomas Hardy and Franz Kafka.
Nonetheless, I rather liked this quote:


"Fear: the servant on which evil could most confidently rely."


Is there any message in there for the Christian Church, I wonder?
- Rowan? Rowan?



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