The whole book is posing a question. You think you've won a war - what you've done is finish a war. There was a crime committed in that war the like … - William Golding

Нам нужны правила, и мы должны им подчиняться. Мы не дикари какие-нибудь. Мы англичане. А англичане всегда и везде лучше всех. Значит, надо вести себя как следует.

Somewhere over the darkened curve of the world the sun and moon were pulling; and the film of water on the earth planet was held, bulging slightly on one side while the solid core turned. The great wave of the tide moved further along the island and the water lifted. Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon’s dead body moved out towards the open sea.

I was an estructuralist at the age of seven, which is about the right age for it.