the point is that as well as brief around…

Page 72 the point is that as well as brief around bereavement, which may be what first comes to mind, there is the grief of abandonment. You die at heart from a withdrawal of love, writes the unreliable narrator of Iris Murdoch, novel, the sea, the sea. He is fooling himself, and at 15 I did too. I knew that I would love Jules forever, and then I've never love again. I was only partly wrong.