There are two kinds of farewell tours: The "It's all over, no one is talking to each other, let's make one last grab for cash before we kill each other'' ones and the "It's been great, let's quit ...
Somewhere in that hypnotic 12-volume seq­uence Powell remarks, albeit more elegantly than I can remember, that the Celtic twilight is the last refuge of the literary fraud. Still, the Celtic twilight ...