Iris Murdoch on swimming in the Thames

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Iris Murdoch on swimming in the Thames

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A quote from Iris Murdoch, reflecting on her experiences swimming in the Thames with her husband.

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"On hot days in the Oxford summer my husband and I usually manager to slip into the Thames... The art is to draw no attention to oneself but to cruise quietly by the reeds like a water rat: seeing and unseen from that angle, one can hear the sedge warblers' mysterious little melodies, and sometimes a cuckoo flies cuckooing over our heads, or a kingfisher flashes past."

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