Another exercise, which no doubt the academics will get around to if they have not already
done so, is a study of Murdoch and water. We know she was passionately fond of swimming.
The sea, hardly always benign, recurs and recurs. At least two of the novels turn on
near-drownings. (Is it something to do with the insular nature of English life? One
recalls the double-drowning, for instance, in Women in Love.)
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