Sublime

each of the poems in Fifteen Dogs contains one of the dogs’ names.

dour

Quite a strange man, thought James, watching him go – but what a relief to discover he still contained the capacity to be taken by surprise.

caul around him. Did you know that, Jimmy? It’s

In company he claimed they got on like a house on fire, but it was clear which of them provided the petrol.

a lady of uncertain age in a lilac blouse,

return. In some quarters he’s believed too sentimental to be taken seriously, and fatally flawed by a tendency to think too kindly of his characters – but Thomas believes that any writer who thinks himself better than the products of his own imagination should seek out some more appropriate profession (such as dentistry, for example, or the constru

Rubaiyat.