The shoe, I love. HH is so hard to picture drunk and this does it perfectly.
Hornblower was unlikely even to find out if Bush should die, but Bush seemed either unaware or unconcerned. He was smiling, and the sun was coming up from behind his shoulders. And this for me is amazing, because I find it so easy to slip into thinking about the adoring Bush/unaware HH register when *of course*, Bush's specialism is being unaware and happy at times and HH's specialism is being precocious and miserable; all in all it's brilliantly preceptive and SUCH a gorgeous image of Bush.
And HH is right, this would have been a better goodbye. The contrast of the innocently drunk and rosy professional goodbye of the WAH painful Caudebec.
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Hornblower was unlikely even to find out if Bush should die, but Bush seemed either unaware or unconcerned. He was smiling, and the sun was coming up from behind his shoulders.
And this for me is amazing, because I find it so easy to slip into thinking about the adoring Bush/unaware HH register when *of course*, Bush's specialism is being unaware and happy at times and HH's specialism is being precocious and miserable; all in all it's brilliantly preceptive and SUCH a gorgeous image of Bush.
And HH is right, this would have been a better goodbye. The contrast of the innocently drunk and rosy professional goodbye of the WAH painful Caudebec.