Charles Palliser quotes:
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Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
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Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather defiantly trying to live a pre-World War I existence.
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I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'
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In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that.
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I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.
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I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.
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To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.