I have finished these and now need to sit down and process my thoughts, of which there are many, in some form of coherent shape for review. This is proving difficult as I veer wildly between thinking how ghastly Chips was and then reading of his love for his son and thinking perhaps he wasn't such a bad chap after all.
But I have to mention here the mammoth task that Simon Heffer has undertaken in his editing of the millions of words that he has had to plough through. I am pretty sure he did not do it single handledly but the responsibility for producing this volume, with more to come,must have been a heavy one.
So my short post today is to record my admiration for the end result. I have recently been re-reading George Eliot's Middlemarch and the thought came into my mind while reading Chips that this is how Mr Causabon must have felt when trying to edit and finalise his Key to All Mythologies which he had been working on all his life......
Mr Heffer - I salute you.
