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Reading update - finished.

The Charioteer - Mary Renault

"Remorse, even the greatest, has the nature of a debt; if we could only clear the books we feel that we should be free. But a deep compassion has the nature of love, which keeps no balance sheet; we are no longer our own. So in the presence of this helpless forgiveness, Laurie seemed to himself to be doing only what was nearest in the absence of time to think. There was something here to be done which no one else could do".

 

 

Stunning, do not think my review could do it justice. Go, read, if for some strange reason you have not yet.