It's one of the handful of Murdochs that I've read Lawrence and I found it a rather strange but quite compelling book. I heard the R4 adaptation too and all it did really was give a flavour.
Cheers
Tim
On 5 Oct 2015, at 15:53, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> heard a R4 production of Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea. I havent read
> it and found almost everyone and thing in it a bit odd
>
> It stayed with me though but as it has stayed I have begun to think that
> there must be a lot more to it than that. I got a story and suggestions of
> subplots. I suspect it was greatly simplified.
>
> Generally, and we are I know some distance from Poetry or Music now, I'd
> prefer a reading of the original. Ulysses was good and I say that though I
> don't much like Ulysses.
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