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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20001126
Author:Bob Thompson

"'Mrs. Bathurst' is awfully good," my father says. He's holding a Penguin Modern Classics edition of the later short stories of Rudyard Kipling, open to the table of contents. " `They' is one of the most beautiful things Kipling ever did -- the lady who keeps an open house for ghosts of children."

We are sitting on the fold-up couch in his study, in the house just north of Seattle that he and my mother designed and built after his retirement, and he is offering his literary opinions in a manner with which I am entirely familiar. My father's opinions -- on literature and everything else -- are ...

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