The Sunday Philosophy Club (2004)
“The reply came on a card bearing Raeburn’s picture of the Reverend Robert Walker skating on the ice at Duddingston Loch, a picture as powerful and immediately recognisable, in its local way, as The Birth of Venus. Great art, she felt, had a calming effect on the viewer; it made one stop in awe, which is exactly what Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol did not do. You did not stop in awe. They stopped you in your tracks, perhaps, but that was not the same thing; awe was something quite different.
She turned the eighteenth-century clergyman on his back and read Cat’s message: Of course, you’re forgiven. You always are. Anyway, something has happened, and it has proved that you were right. There, I thought that would be so difficult to say, and I suppose it was. My pen almost ground to a halt. But anyway come and have coffee in the shop and I can let you try this new cheese that’s just come in. It’s Portuguese and it tastes of olives. Cat.
Isabel felt grateful for her niece’s good nature, even ...if an aspect of that same nature was a lack of judgement when it came to men.MoreLess
She turned the eighteenth-century clergyman on his back and read Cat’s message: Of course, you’re forgiven. You always are. Anyway, something has happened, and it has proved that you were right. There, I thought that would be so difficult to say, and I suppose it was. My pen almost ground to a halt. But anyway come and have coffee in the shop and I can let you try this new cheese that’s just come in. It’s Portuguese and it tastes of olives. Cat.
Isabel felt grateful for her niece’s good nature, even ...if an aspect of that same nature was a lack of judgement when it came to men.MoreLess
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