![]() However, to pick up on one of the book’s themes, the accumulation of not getting things can add up to a kind of understanding. If such a thing is possible, I didn’t get it even more than I hadn’t got it first time around. To me, there seemed less to get second time around. I still didn’t get it when I reread it after Barnes won this year’s Man Booker Prize, and Stella Rimington, chairwoman of the judging panel (and former head of MI5), said there was more to get each time you read it. I didn’t get the book when I first read it. There are so many things he doesn’t get that he even considers using the line as his epitaph: “Tony Webster - He Never Got It.” ![]() Then, after more clues have come his way, she tells him that he still doesn’t get it. The narrator of Julian Barnes’s acclaimed novel “The Sense of an Ending” is told by Veronica, a girlfriend from his university days, that he just doesn’t get it. ![]()
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