Summer is obviously meant to be about romance, but I am a woman whose romances have, with a few notable exceptions, blossomed under louring skies, both actual and metaphorical.
Kathryn Flett, The Observer, 8 July 2007. The Observer
However, the equally rarefied Middle Temple Hall, with its stained-glass coats of arms, louring portraits, and suits of armour, is a very different venue from the Wigmore - atmospheric, certainly, but with a churchy acoustic in which detail can easily get lost.
''This dance was the dance of death,'' she writes, describing the clowns' requiem for one of their dead. ''They danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness. They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on.''
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, 30 January 1985, New York Times
reviewing and quoting from Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus. Amazon
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life" - Albert Camus
