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The best thing about being God, Murdoch once wrote, would be making the heads. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Philosophy

Simplified: Murdoch once wrote the best thing about being God would be making the heads

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5 months ago
An urbane poem titled “St. James’s Park” reads a bit like the everyday sketches of Frank O’Hara: “The people are constantly coming over the bridge / And the lips of the women are red.” 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Poetry

Simplified: The poem "St James's Park" reads like the everyday sketches of Frank O'Hara

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5 months ago
The poem takes a turn in the middle. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: The poem takes a turn in the middle

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5 months ago
He considers how his wife would have reacted. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: He considers how his wife would have reacted

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5 months ago
She is remarried with children. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: She is remarried with children

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He is headed toward an “obscure hotel / Where he is waited for.” 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: He is headed toward an obscure hotel where he is waited for

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5 months ago
Murdoch said in an interview, that “poets can express much more than novelists, this connected sense of something which is simple and lucid and true and non-bogus and at the same time oddly accidental... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: Murdoch said poets can express much more than novelists

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5 months ago
“Poems From an Attic” does not greatly extend our understanding of Murdoch. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: Poems From an Attic does not greatly extend understanding of Murdoch

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5 months ago
These are formal workings out of impulses, appetites and intense feelings. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: These are formal workings out of impulses appetites and intense feelings

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5 months ago
The best are strong enough that it’s as if she carved them, with a knife, onto a library desk. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: The best are strong enough as if she carved them with a knife onto a library desk

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5 months ago
Dwight Garner has been a book critic for The Times since 2008. 1.000

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Simplified: Dwight Garner has been a book critic for The Times since 2008

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5 months ago
Before that was an editor at the Book Review for a decade. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Journalism

Simplified: Before that was an editor at the Book Review for a decade

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5 months ago
Murdoch’s complicated sexuality — she had all-consuming affairs with both men and women, including the writers Elias Canetti and Brigid Brophy, before settling down with the rumpled and genial Bayley... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Biography , Sexuality

Simplified: Murdoch had all-consuming affairs with men and women including Elias Canetti and Brigid Brophy before settling down with John Bayley

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5 months ago
Two of this book’s editors were invited up into the attic of Murdoch and Bayley’s last house, on Charlbury Road in Oxford, in 2016. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Biography

Simplified: Two editors were invited into the attic of Murdoch and Bayley's last house on Charlbury Road in Oxford in 2016

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5 months ago
One of the central poems in this collection, written in 1955, is titled “Musical Evening for Three.” 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Poetry

Simplified: One central poem in this collection written in 1955 is titled "Musical Evening for Three"

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One is titled “To a Girl With Yellow Hair” and begins: “How is it that we understood each other / At once, and recognized each other / Without the usual preliminaries?” 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Poetry

Simplified: One poem is titled "To a Girl With Yellow Hair" and begins "How is it that we understood each other / At once and recognized each other / Without the...

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5 months ago
We’ve also had a trickle of posthumous work. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Publishing

Simplified: There has also been a trickle of posthumous work

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5 months ago
She feared her poetry was mediocre. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Poetry

Simplified: Iris Murdoch feared her poetry was mediocre

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5 months ago
Murdoch’s letters, published as “Living on Paper” (2016), are among the most ardent and vivid literary letters of the previous century. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Letters

Simplified: Murdoch's letters published as "Living on Paper" in 2016 are among the most ardent and vivid literary letters of the previous century

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5 months ago
Some has been sumptuous. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature , Publishing

Simplified: Some posthumous work has been sumptuous

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