'NEVER say you know the last word about any human heart,' the novelist Henry James wrote in the early 20th century. William Boyd uses that phrase, 'any human heart,' as the title of his 2002 novel about the multiplicity of selves.
'NEVER say you know the last word about any human heart,' the novelist Henry James wrote in the early 20th century. William Boyd uses that phrase, 'any human heart,' as the title of his 2002 novel about the multiplicity of selves.It led to thinking how people can change over the years, and how we are not the stereotypes that people think we are. In 1996, I was a senior editor at The Sunday Times Magazine of The Manila Times when I got an invitation from Mrs.
Then he asked why was I close to the military officers and their wives, who were the guests at Johnny Tuvera's book launching? I said I grew up in two military camps, and those officers and their wives were my parents' friends. We called them 'Uncle' and 'Auntie,' and I did not have the time to tell him that ties forged in military childhoods are some of the strongest, because I really had to go to the toilet and relieve myself.
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