The Magic Theatre by James Harpur Vidyan Ravinthiran Standing back

Standing back

almost allowing the reader to see the world through the animal’s eyes

Brilliantly insightful and strikingly lyrical

said my mother

as well as the American Objectivists

The Magic Theatre by James Harpur Vidyan Ravinthiran Standing back976: just as the Sex Pistols are about to release 'Anarchy in the U. K.', James Harpur arrives at Trinity College, Cambridge, to read Classics. As if stepping onstage in the strangest of theatres, he finds himself acting in a play without knowing what his part is to be. Changing to study English, the poet finds an education in unlikely places: a broken love affair; excruciating meetings with professors (and his father); initiations into Brahms and