Dancing Around the Four Sides

I remembered there was one passage from Moab that I absolutely loved, and Dreamwidth has such a lovely search function I was able to find it in a flash:

What I believed I was looking for I cannot say. I can only assert that, as in a novel, the locations with which this story climaxes are the same as the locations with which it begins. Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.

So far Chronicles is not too show-biz-y, although he has talked about Tom Stoppard and some other people whose names I simply didn't recognize. He's sort of ... easing into the story of his life at Cambridge by recapping a bit of the end of Moab (i.e., the credit card thievery and the spell in prison).

I think I began to be a Fry fan after I saw him as the wonderfully, horrifically obnoxious Professor Mybug in Cold Comfort Farm. :-D