NP, NWG, but everything connects.....

[Mark Kohut]

Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley, 1990, Whitbread winner, Dalkey Archive 
publisher. 


Begins in winter of 1918-1919. Narrator is describing her 'radical', very Left 
upbringing, living in Berlin
at this time. 
and she writes this:    "When I was in my father's study it would seem that we 
were in
the cabin or gondola of an airship."..........


Couple paragraphs later...."I sometimes wondered---or it seems to me now that my 
father and
I must have wondered---where in fact does power reside within something like an 
airship? Is it in 

the engine-room, or with the people who sit with their knobs and levers and 
dream that they are
in control?"..........