Now, a few years later, I'm bewildered and deeply worried by the way one can be impressed and moved by a book and yet do absolutely nothing about one's indignation and simply put all the good arguments to one's side — frightening evidence of the impotence of books in the hands of fickle readers.
St Mary's Church House, Chain Street, 0118-939 1365, bills-website.co.uk You will find this Sardinian restaurant on Queens Walk, an unlovely spur off a bewildering, deeply ugly 1970s concrete complex, that also includes the Hexagon Theatre and Reading's council offices.
The insurance industry was no less bewildered.. "It concerns so deeply the way we work," said William Vidoja, the deputy manager for the European Federation of the Insurance Industry, which represents 5,118 insurance companies.
Not only am I deeply disappointed, but I am also puzzled, bothered and bewildered.
In Troy, there is an upstart "fur -trafficking gang calling itselfur -traffickingew ("It sounds like 'silent screw'," says one bewildered victim), fronted by the gangfully callingbut also deeply dumb alitselfristhehe (ASilencealters).
"David and Goliath," on the other hand, is at once deeply repetitive and a bewildering sprawl.
When you read them in their least-tampered-with editions, they turn out to be deeply ambiguous stories, morally bewildering and much weirder than you remember.
In an email quoted in the New York Times, its producers Jeffrey Seller and Kathryn Schenker acknowledged: "We have been bewildered and saddened by our inability to sustain an audience for this musical that we deeply love".
