James Atwood

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“As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)

“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.”
—Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)