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Of course Shakespeare doesn’t contain the whole world. When they say he does what they mean is that Shakespeare’s world is so vaster than their own to which they are accustomed and in which they are more or less comfortable that it surely must contain everything. Their meaning is half right. Shakespeare’s world is vaster than theirs, but it is hardly complete.

So too with Murdoch. There are omissions, weaknesses, and things she just gets plain wrong.

Science, technology, matters of business, music, dance, movies: these, and of course more, she touches on, but one’s sense is that she is partly puzzled and partly baffled by such matters. She knows that people, including no doubt some whom she respects or even loves, value these activities highly. They become a necessary but unconvinced and unconvincing part of her palette.

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