“Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong
doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty
space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the
Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not
uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a
flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?”
―
Graham Swift,
Waterland
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