Some of us habitually quote Orwell’s correct comparison of producing first-person prose to ‘dosing yourself with some … very deleterious and very habit-forming drug.’ But concerning Daniel Mannix, first-person prose is inescapable. Though His Grace died 52 years back, the Mannix Wars still echo to (Wilfred Owen’s simile, of course) ‘the sob and clubbing of the gunfire.’
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R. J. Stove lives in Melbourne and underwent Catholic baptism in 2002.
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