When you're writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking.

It's very lucky when you have an artist - whether it's a novelist or a filmmaker or a singer - whose career you can follow from the beginning and feel that you are in some way part of it, or part of the same world that it comes out of.

There's never been a Van Morrison album that I haven't immediately listened to, whether with delight or crushing disappointment.

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