🎞️"The Bell" - моя перша книга Айріс Мердок, але точно не остання. Вона довгенька, але під кінець я навіть не хотіла, аби вона закінчувалася - було б добре провести з цими людьми більше часу, подовше поспостерігати за їхніми долями, зазирнути в голови ще комусь - особливо Кетрін та Нікові.🎞️Радитиму, якщо вам близька Баєтт. І дуже хотіла б побачити її українською.A bell is made to speak out. What would be the value of a bell which was never rung? It rings out clearly, it bears witness, it cannot speak without seeming like a call, a summons. A great bell is not to be silenced. Consider too its simplicity. There is no hidden mechanism. All that it is is plain and open; and if it is moved it must ring. Youth is a marvellous garment. How misplaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when one has cast the die and has to settle into a chosen life without the consolations of habit or the wisdom of maturity, when, as in her own case, one ceases to be une jeune fille un peu folle, and becomes merely a woman, worst of all, a wife.