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After reading That Summer In Paris which I enjoyed very much, there was one thing that didn’t sit right with me. For a large group of writers all spending a lot of time with each other in the one city, there is a surprising lack of actual writing. They go to cafés, drink wine and have boxing matches. But there is very little talk of going to write or of what one is going to write about. Looking this up using the tool Voyant, I discovered that whilst they talk of writers, the verb to write is used very little. Far less, than the word café which I mentioned in the other keywords section.This seems to suggest to me that for Callaghan writing is a means to enable a socially defined lifestyle, rather than the more commonplace alienated writer who's work is their life.