The Military Philosophers - Anthony Powell
ANTHONY POWELL
THE MILITARY PHILOSOPHERS
A NOVEL
Book 9
A Dance to the Music of Time
HEINEMANN : LONDON
ONE
Towards morning the teleprinter’s bell sounded. A whole night could pass without a summons of that sort, for here, unlike the formations, was no responsibility to wake at four and take dictation – some brief unidentifiable passage of on the whole undistinguished prose – from the secret radio Spider, calling and testing in the small hours. Sleep was perfectly atta ...