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From the European travelogue of his Caparison debut collection Tabac Blond (2019) we now find Christopher Moncrieff transported… to the stultifying ‘blond corridors’ of a Cambridge College… Moncrieff has grown his own mythology of moral longing in the mouldering realms of scaffolded knowledge which at times call to mind such diverse imaginations as Charles Kinglsey (The Water-Babies), Lewis Carroll (Alice), C.P. Cavafy, Mervyn Peake (Titus), Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies), Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward (Mortmere), Muriel Spark (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), Franz Kafka (The Castle), Peter Weir (Picnic at Hanging Rock) and Roman Polanski (The Tenant)…