‘You are fearless, carrying your body lightly, climbing the pear tree at the end of the garden to read books in the treehouse your brother built. ‘
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‘The unwritten play becomes so tantalisingly wonderful, surprising, profound: — why spoil its hypothetical brilliance by encasing it in specific words? ‘