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‘May I never resemble M. de Lesseps’, E. M. Forster wrote when he looked at the famous statue by the Suez Canal. ‘May no achievement upon an imposing scale be mine.’1 For forty odd years he was silent as a novelist — and once or twice said, with his usual modesty, that he had forgotten how to write novels — but in novelising his say against Imperialism, he exhausted what he would have said against modern totalitarianism. A Passage to India prolongs its significance in Africa and the Deep South. The fact is that he imposed by interposing.
‘E. M. Forster’, New Statesman, 12 June 1970, p. 846.
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Pritchett, V.S. (1993). Three Cheers for E. M. Forster. In: Stape, J.H. (eds) E. M. Forster. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12850-1_44
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