'You're sure she doesn't know,' said Georgie.
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A Severed Head
by Iris Murdoch
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Martin Lynch-Gibbon believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. As his Medusa informs him, 'this is nothing to do with happiness'.
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A severed head
1976, Penguin Books in association with Chatto & Windus
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August 26, 1963, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Violence, except on the screen, is always pathetic, ludicrous, and beastly.
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I am a severed head such as primitive tribes and old alchemists used to use, anointing it with oil and putting a morsel of gold upon its tongue to make it utter prophecies. And who knows but that long acquaintance with a severed head might not lead to strange knowledge.
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