





They ride up-country towards Katherine without banner or display, a tight knot of armed men, and arrive at Kimbolton in the half-dark. She is sitting by the fire shrunk into a cape of very good ermines. The king will want that back, he thinks, ...
Firstly, as explicitness becomes the norm, rather than the rare and purposeful exception, it either loses its capacity to disturb or becomes so brutal that it overwhelms the capacity for compassion or reflection. Secondly, the explicit in art is ...
