The Remains of the Day: Opening Lines

My short audio exploring the opening lines of Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 Booker Prize winning novel, The Remains of the Day.

"It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination for now for some days." (page 1)

What is it to have individual agency? How much choice do you really have over what you do? And how do you speak about it - does your lack of freedom reveal itself in the words you use?

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