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THAT PROMETHEAN SPARK
THE BOTTLE IMP – Muriel Spark Special Issue

“With a writing career that included biography, criticism, drama and short fiction as well as novels, Muriel Spark was never one to do things by halves…”

Muriel Spark was born , 1 Feb, 1918. A 🎂🧵 …

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Issue 22 Muriel Spark Special Issue That Promethean Spark By The Unreliable Narrator In some ways the most real and rooted people whom Sandy knew were Miss Gaunt and the Kerr sisters who made no evasions about their belief that God had planned for practically everybody before they were born a nasty surprise when they died. Later, when Sandy read John Calvin, she found that although popular conceptions of Calvinism were sometimes mistaken, in this particular there was no mistake, indeed it was but a mild understanding of the case, he having made it God’s pleasure to implant in certain people an erroneous sense of joy and salvation, so that their surprise at the end might be the nastier. —The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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    AFTERWORDS: Muriel Spark
    “One’s prime is elusive…”

    —On BBC Sounds: writers Ian Rankin & Zoë Strachan discuss Muriel Spark’s life & work with National Library of Scotland curator Colin McIlroy, & Spark’s friend & memoirist, Alan Taylor

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018238

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    “It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.”

    —extracts from A GOOD COMB, by Muriel Spark, ed. Penelope Jardine, via Literary Hub

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    https://lithub.com/a-few-words-of-indispensible-advice-from-muriel-spark/

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