The Dandyism of Muriel Spark

Lecture no. 15

Dear Heart,

My father was an avid cinemagoer. He would watch almost anything that was playing at the local multiplex and had a simple way to test the merit of a film. When he emerged from the three and a half hours of the Lord of the Rings: The Return of The King (2003), he declared:

‘It was excellent. I didn’t look at my watch once’.

In a world saturated …