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Essay
Aug.05.2012
Los Angeles Review of Books
“He sat down in his own room under the handcuffs and began to write.” THAT PAIR OF RUSTY CUFFS hangs "like an old hat" above the desk of Major Henry Scobie in Graham Greene's 1948 novel The Heart of the Matter. The shackles symbolize the sense of responsibility that hangs over Scobie as a husband, Catholic, and colonial police chief in British West Africa...