The Man Who Went Down With His Ship (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
She had been taking part in a demonstration all day, and she returned home cold, tired and depressed. Cold, because it was January and an east wind had been blowing. Tired, because she had been on her feet for ten hours without a break, and the mere effort of trying to keep warm had exhausted her. And depressed, because though her opposition to the government against which she had been demonstrating was sincere, she suspected that her attitude towards what that government stood for was a little more ambiguous than she would ever have admitted to her fellow demonstrators and liked to admit to herself. Didn’t she pride herself on her ‘civilisedness’? Yes, she did. Wasn’t her ‘civilisedness’ a very European affair? Yes, it was. And wasn’t that government an upholder of European standards? Well, yes, in a way, in a contradictory, possibly perverted way, it was. Therefore … of course, she tried to tell herself, tolerance, a love of justice, and a belief in democracy and the equal rights of all human beings were also a legacy of European civilisation.
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