Author(s): Fowles, John
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0108
Barcode: 9781843796336
Release Date: 09/2012

FOWLES, J.: Magus (The) (Unabridged)

The Magus defined the spirit of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe accepts a teaching post on a beautiful, remote Greek island, in order to escape an unsatisfactory love affair. He meets the enigmatic Maurice Conchis, who introduces him to the exquisitely lovely Lily, his ideal of the perfect woman. But is she flesh or fantasy? As the past bleeds into the present, he finds it increasingly difficult to distinguish reality from imagination. Under the spell of this magic isle and its presiding spirit, he struggles to understand the rules of the mysterious game into which he is drawn.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Fowles, John - Author
Boulton, Nicholas (Reader)
1 Part 1: Chapter 1 06:44
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2 At least, along with a group of fellow odd men out at Magdalen… 05:54
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3 Chapter 2 04:29
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4 Chapter 3 08:02
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5 When I came back, she was standing with a glass of Scotch in her hand. 05:52
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6 Alison knelt beside me. 05:40
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7 Chapter 4 07:02
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8 For days, afraid of Maggie… 07:30
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9 I couldn't see her face. 06:46
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10 One day she said, 'I've got to go for my interview tomorrow.' 07:25
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11 Chapter 5 04:36
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12 'I waited hours for you.' 04:35
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Disc 2
1 The next morning, my last but two… 06:34
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2 Chapter 6 07:13
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3 Chapter 7 06:43
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4 This lack of open water meant also that there were no wild animals… 06:32
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5 Another letter came from her the next day. 06:44
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6 Chapter 8 07:48
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7 One kind of person is engaged in society without realising it… 06:36
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8 The day before term ended I felt the balance tip. 06:25
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9 Chapter 9 03:21
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10 Part 2: Chapter 10 08:05
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11 The sun beat down on my back. 05:18
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12 Chapter 11 03:17
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Disc 3
1 The leading estiatoras of the village… 08:34
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2 Chapter 12 06:47
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3 Chapter 13 06:30
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4 I bit into my first kourabie, and gave an appreciative nod. 06:58
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5 As I walked behind him, I said… 06:32
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6 His head turned on me with a snakelike swiftness… 06:53
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7 Chapter 14 06:28
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8 Chapter 15 06:06
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9 'Do you like this?' 08:09
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10 He picked up a book and slapped the dust off it. 05:52
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11 He sat against the parapet with his back to the view. 06:18
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Disc 4
1 Chapter 16 05:26
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2 Chapter 17 07:29
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3 I swilled the last of the ouzo round in my glass. 06:59
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4 'I came to Phraxos looking for a house to rent.' 08:33
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5 Chapter 18 07:06
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6 'You see the child I was.' 07:06
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7 'No obstacles except those of propriety…' 08:03
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8 'I felt like a small boy beside her.' 06:34
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9 Chapter 19 06:20
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10 'The madness of it, Nicholas.' 06:09
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11 He stood up. 07:23
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Disc 5
1 Chapter 20 07:00
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2 'I stayed in that crater all night.' 06:45
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3 Chapter 21 07:43
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4 Chapter 22 06:05
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5 We remained staring at each other. 06:27
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6 Chapter 23 06:20
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7 I looked around again, towards the house. 05:42
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8 He had already had his own… 05:52
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9 I was silent. 05:46
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10 Chapter 24 05:54
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11 He stopped speaking for a moment… 06:14
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12 'But there was so much misunderstanding between us.' 07:35
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Disc 6
1 Chapter 25 06:04
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2 I went swiftly down the hall to the front door. 04:30
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3 Chapter 26 06:08
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4 'He's asked me over next week again.' 08:16
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5 Chapter 27 06:20
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6 At last it began to seem plain. 07:24
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7 She had bare shoulders and arms. 06:49
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8 Chapter 28 05:50
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9 She went and stood against the parapet at the far end of the terrace… 05:30
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10 Chapter 29 06:37
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11 'Constantly, during that first visit, I was shocked…' 06:52
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12 'He was the most abnormal man I had ever met.' 06:01
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Disc 7
1 I went to the parapet that faced East. 07:16
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2 I looked back at Conchis. 06:48
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3 'Very well. Let us have a little more brandy first.' 07:28
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4 Chapter 30 07:08
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5 I had never had a telepathic experience in my life… 03:27
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6 Chapter 31 06:15
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7 'Give me your hand.' 06:00
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8 I thought for one mad moment that he had crept up behind us. 07:57
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9 It was a wild, dislocating, disactualising, shock. 07:14
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10 Chapter 32 04:41
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11 Chapter 33 05:54
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12 She threw me a veiled look, then stared ahead again. 04:38
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Disc 8
1 'I haven't been very happy on Phraxos.' 04:31
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2 Chapter 34 07:32
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3 'When shall I see you again?' 08:20
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4 Chapter 35 05:41
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5 He gave me a piercing look I was meant to believe… 06:20
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6 I had the now familiar feeling that came in conversations at Bourani. 06:26
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7 I remained staring at the edge of the tablecloth. 05:55
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8 Chapter 36 06:33
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9 I began to stare at the star. 05:55
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10 At some point it began imperceptibly to change. 06:54
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11 Chapter 37 06:53
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12 I was glad, with a simplicity that recalled earliest adolescence. 05:25
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Disc 9
1 Chapter 38 06:30
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2 I remembered Lily's prophecy… 06:35
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3 There was a long silence. 06:51
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4 Chapter 39 05:22
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5 It should have cast a shadow over the day. 03:53
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6 Chapter 40 04:56
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7 At the top of it we came to… 05:54
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8 Chapter 41 07:38
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9 She thrust the saucepan under my nose… 07:20
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10 Chapter 42 06:55
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11 We walked on a way… 07:32
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12 'It's not that I believe any of these things…' 05:42
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Disc 10
1 We got to Arachova about five… 07:29
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2 'That reminds me.' 05:20
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3 She began to bang the bedrail with her fists… 05:06
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4 Chapter 43 07:04
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5 She turned down the pale blue flame of the spirit-stove… 06:27
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6 I went after her. 06:55
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7 Chapter 44 05:22
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8 'I think I told you that when modern history…' 06:24
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9 However, from being rather frightened by the solitude… 06:12
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10 'He said, "I had no choice."' 06:09
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11 'I got into the boat…' 05:10
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12 'I watched this rare specimen of humanity for some time.' 05:56
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Disc 11
1 'I went back to the farmstead a wiser young man.' 05:25
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2 I trained my glasses on him. 05:44
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3 Chapter 45 06:08
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4 Conchis kissed her hand, and then she reached it to me… 07:13
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5 A second later I had let go of her and was reaching in my pocket… 05:45
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6 She leant backward and stretched her arm along the seat back… 04:43
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7 She answered obliquely. 05:43
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8 She started to walk down past the statue. 06:01
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9 Chapter 46 05:44
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10 Lily looked coolly down at me and said… 06:16
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11 I lit my cigarette. 05:41
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12 She handed me three other letters. 05:58
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13 'But you must still have smelt a rat?' 05:08
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Disc 12
1 'We had screen tests. Some woman Maurice knew…' 06:34
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2 'You said yes again?' 07:12
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3 She looked back over her shoulder. 05:55
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4 Chapter 47 05:39
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5 I began my supplementary cross-examination. 06:13
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6 After a moment or two… 06:38
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7 Chapter 48 03:35
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8 Chapter 49 06:00
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9 We came to where the beach curved away… 05:31
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10 I began to walk in the direction that would bring me… 06:30
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11 In a few seconds a pale movement told me I was right. 05:19
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12 'What the bloody hell's the game?' 05:42
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Disc 13
1 The colonel moved up the path to where the sergeant… 05:49
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2 As he did so there was a cry, an exclamation. 06:40
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3 Chapter 50 06:50
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4 I began to walk along towards the bay with the three cottages. 06:03
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5 On the far side of the village there was another harbour… 06:43
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6 'What kind of singing and dancing?' 07:22
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7 Chapter 51 06:45
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8 I lay on the bed and thought of her coming to me… 05:25
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9 My tears did not last very long. 06:29
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10 Chapter 52 06:02
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11 'A victim is someone who has something inflicted on him…' 06:11
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12 This was the 'last trick' of Julie's letter. 06:08
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Disc 14
1 We silently toasted each other, across the lamp-lit table… 05:28
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2 The new-risen moon was amber… 05:49
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3 Chapter 53 06:14
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4 He let me look a few moments longer… 05:21
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5 The beam was extinguished, the engine stopped. 06:33
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6 'Poor Anton.' 06:45
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7 '‘So the eighty of us were marched off to the school…' 06:52
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8 They took the three to the school, where they were interrogated. 06:33
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9 'We went into another bare room next door.' 05:53
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10 'The night passed.' 04:57
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11 'Beyond those three atrocious shapes I saw the hostages.' 07:13
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12 'I understood then.' 07:06
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Disc 15
1 Chapter 54 07:12
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2 'But let me finish by showing you the report that Anton wrote.' 06:54
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3 Chapter 55 05:35
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4 'She wrote me a letter.' 05:11
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5 He caught sight of something behind me. 05:02
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6 Joe appeared in the music-room door, with two heavy suitcases. 06:17
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7 Chapter 56 05:43
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8 Perhaps it was seeing her in contemporary… 04:35
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9 Under the colonnade, Hermes stood waiting. 05:24
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10 I lit a fourth match. 05:46
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11 Chapter 57 05:20
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12 Julie's suitcase stood at the foot of the bed. 05:08
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13 Chapter 58 04:20
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14 She had the amateur liar's habit of looking earnestly into one's eyes. 04:11
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Disc 16
1 I took her hand and led her silently and quickly up the alley… 05:16
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2 I went and stood by the window, the now-torrential rain… 05:29
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3 Chapter 59 07:28
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4 I lay on top of her, mastering her… 06:32
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5 A little smile at the corner of her mouth… 07:32
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6 Chapter 60 05:53
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7 All her story – her stories… 05:39
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8 I lit another Philip Morris. 06:44
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9 Chapter 61 06:17
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10 As soon as I had done so… 05:41
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11 The next figure was African… 06:46
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12 Perhaps a minute passed like that. 05:18
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Disc 17
1 'Good. Now… if I may be allowed I shall first introduce myself.' 05:44
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2 I could not keep control any longer. 06:32
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3 The subject's family… 06:16
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4 Though I have little sympathy as a fellow human being… 06:37
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5 Adam called something. 06:48
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6 No one moved… 06:58
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7 Chapter 62 06:43
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8 A new shot. 07:10
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9 Then light came from behind the curtains. 06:51
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10 Lily. 07:09
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11 Chapter 63 06:31
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12 I climbed a hundred yards or so to the top of the hill. 04:58
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Disc 18
1 Pitching and rolling, the little steamer, made late by the meltemi… 04:19
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2 Next I opened another envelope from London. 04:05
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3 Chapter 64 05:29
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4 There was a swift conversation in Greek between the headmaster… 05:12
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5 He watched me a moment more, then came to the point. 06:20
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6 Chapter 65 07:02
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7 Finally, on different paper, a scrawled message… 06:30
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8 The 'orders' looked as if they had all been typed out… 06:00
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9 Chapter 66 06:05
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10 I returned to the waiting yellow taxi. 05:08
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11 The dinner that evening was dreadful… 06:33
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12 Chapter 67 05:02
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13 I walked up and down my room… 06:51
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Disc 19
1 Part 3: Chapter 68 05:04
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2 I wanted to say that I hadn't come as a tourist… 06:29
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3 Chapter 69 05:21
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4 The next morning I went round to the estate agents… 05:07
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5 Chapter 70 06:24
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6 Faculty of English, Osaka University. 04:42
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7 Evening Standard of January 8, 1952. 06:23
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8 Chapter 71 06:39
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9 I walked over the gravel and under a brick arch. 07:25
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10 'Can you remember one thing…' 05:11
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11 She looked down at her cigarette. 06:24
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12 Chapter 72 08:02
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Disc 20
1 'I have some ugly questions to ask.' 07:32
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2 She reached up to the mantelpiece beside… 07:57
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3 I would not turn and look at her. 07:03
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4 Chapter 73 06:35
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5 There was only one person I wanted to talk with. 06:47
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6 I stood at the bar waiting for the drinks… 06:53
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7 'Fantastic.' 06:16
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8 Chapter 74 05:00
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9 I analysed the situation. 06:51
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10 Chapter 75 07:34
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11 I looked down. 07:24
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Disc 21
1 A minute later, we were going down the corridor… 05:50
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2 Chapter 76 05:43
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3 A young Victorian of my age would have thought nothing… 07:14
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4 She was always equable… 05:07
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5 Rain pounded down, dripped in the gutters… 05:18
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6 If only I had told her at the beginning… 05:36
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7 Chapter 77 07:38
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8 Chapter 78 06:58
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9 She was walking slowly across the grass, towards the east. 06:25
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10 'You're the only person I've ever felt that about.' 07:10
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11 She was not crying, I leant forward and looked. 07:12
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12 There was a smell of a bonfire. 08:01
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