Back Story

FROM THE AUTHOR

The back story for Elegy in Blue is only that as a ( I would say) reasonable person enters the very last part of his life, his ambition vanishes, or at least flows into less temporal channels, and memory rises to a status equal to or greater than that of the present. Such a distillation is no doubt most rewarding if known only to God. But if you have spent your life writing books, it flows naturally into that form.