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[...] the novel seems to make this comparison explicit when, about halfway through, David, who does most of his reflecting on long walks across Hampstead Heath, wonders if he isn't going mad, but then decides that if he is, he doesn't mind; Herzog begins with its protagonist reflecting: IfI am out of my mind, it's all right with me.
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Herzog in Hampstead
Herzog in Hampstead Edmund Gordon To Heaven by Water Justin Cartwright Bloomsbury, 320 pp, £16.99
For David Cross, the retired television journalist at the centre of Justin Cartwright's new novel, the line from Ulysses that gives the book its title is a pris...See the full content of this document
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