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The Brooknerian

About me

Location	United Kingdom
Introduction	I'm an Englishman living in Dorset and London with a lifelong interest in Dr Brookner's work. It stems from a random encounter with Hotel du Lac in a public library at the age of eighteen and a not-so-random meeting with the author herself in a London street a few years later. The glitter of her prose, the radical nature of her themes, and the depth of her erudition continue to dazzle and console me nearly forty years later. But art, as she said, doesn't love you and will not console you... I use the nom de plume Tom Sabine, and my profile picture, by Géricault, first seen on the cover of Brookner's essay collection Soundings, is to be viewed in the flesh in a highly Brooknerian museum in Ghent.

Location

United Kingdom

Introduction

I'm an Englishman living in Dorset and London with a lifelong interest in Dr Brookner's work. It stems from a random encounter with Hotel du Lac in a public library at the age of eighteen and a not-so-random meeting with the author herself in a London street a few years later. The glitter of her prose, the radical nature of her themes, and the depth of her erudition continue to dazzle and console me nearly forty years later. But art, as she said, doesn't love you and will not console you... I use the nom de plume Tom Sabine, and my profile picture, by Géricault, first seen on the cover of Brookner's essay collection Soundings, is to be viewed in the flesh in a highly Brooknerian museum in Ghent.