Knowing the past is as astonishing a performance as knowing the stars. Astronomers look only at old light. There is no other light for them to look at. This old light of dead or distant stars was emitted long ago and it reaches us only in the present… Hence astronomers and historians have this in common: both are concerned with appearances noted in the present but occurring in the past. The analogies between stars and works of art can profitably be pursued. However fragmentary its condition, any work of art is actually a portion of arrested happening, or an emanation of past time. It is a graph of an activity now stilled, but a graph made visible like an astronomical body, by a light that originated with the activity. When an important work of art has utterly disappeared by demolition and dispersal, we can still detect its perturbations upon other bodies in the field of influence.
George Kubler (1962)
{READ IN 2018}
- FEBRUARY
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- 26. The Grave's a Fine & Private Place - Alan Bradley
- 25. This is What Happened - Mick Herron
- 24. London Rules - Mick Herron
- 23. The Third Eye - Ethel Lina White
- 22. Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mewed - Alan Bradley
- 21. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust - Alan Bradley
- 20. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches - Alan Bradley
- 19. Speaking from Among the Bones - Alan Bradley
- JANUARY
- 18. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
- 17. Miss Ranskill Comes Home - Barbara Euphan Todd
- 16. The Long Arm of the Law - Martin Edwards (ed.)
- 15. Nobody Walks - Mick Herron
- 14. The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
- 13. Portrait of a Murderer - Anthony Gilbert
- 12. Murder is a Waiting Game - Anthony Gilbert
- 11. Tenant for the Tomb - Anthony Gilbert
- 10. Death Wears a Mask - Anthony Gilbert
- 9. Night Encounter - Anthony Gilbert
- 8. The Visitor - Anthony Gilbert
- 7. The Looking Glass Murder - Anthony Gilbert
- 6. The Voice - Anthony Gilbert
- 5. The Fingerprint - Anthony Gilbert
- 4. Ring for a Noose - Anthony Gilbert
- 3. No Dust in the Attic - Anthony Gilbert
- 2. Uncertain Death - Anthony Gilbert
- 1. She Shall Died - Anthony Gilbert
