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(Ableman's editor is pitied because "he couldn't any longer afford oysters").
Lubbock wrote a memoir, Until Further Notice, I Am Alive, published in 2012: the first section of this was adapted from a diary he kept until he couldn't any longer, and the last section, as Coutts says in her introduction to it, was "understood, spoken aloud, and pulled together through question and answer, verbal challenges, inspired guesswork, and frustration".
Both young men had literary ambitions, which were directed, in their undergraduate days, promiscuously between poetry and prose; they used to show each other their work, and one of the things Amis lamented, at Larkin's death, was the fact that he couldn't any more.
Until... he couldn't any more.
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Still he couldn't reach any conclusions, and neither can any of the rest of us.
He couldn't look any happier.
He couldn't make any other promises.
He couldn't offer any concrete ideas.
He couldn't effect any change".
He couldn't make any decisions.
Anyway, he couldn't see any of that.
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