← Wherever congregated the jeunes feroces of the arts, in whatever Soho restaurant they had just discovered, in whatever music-hall they were most frequently, there was Soames in the midst of them, or, rather, on the fringe of them, a dim, but inevitable, figure. 🔊
← "In life and in art," he said, "all that matters is an inevitable ending." 🔊
← "But," I urged more hopefully than I felt, "an ending that can be avoided isn’t inevitable." 🔊
← The bringer of that "inevitable ending" filled the doorway. 🔊
← I like to think that some time between 1992 and 1997 somebody will have looked up this memoir, and will have forced on the world his inevitable and startling conclusions. 🔊