I have called this book an extravagant biography, using extravagant in its obsolete sense of vagrant, wandering out of bounds (62).
Published by Faber and Faber in 1962.
Ambiguity, of course, can be the sense given – the overall force should be unambiguous, even if it points unambiguously to ambiguity.
This passage continues on to compare writing a biography of Cotton to a detective novel; if so, it must be a rather new-fangled arty detective novel, with no crime, no criminal, a great deal of furniture, and constant intrusion from the irrelevant detective, Would Surely.
The 6th of August 2012, a Monday, at 10.48.
Generally: notes on reading; more specifically to do with: antiquarianism, biography, curiosity, history, hope mirrlees, scholarship, sir robert cotton.