Yuk
'And where is the poor soul who washes his smalls and must surely, of late, had some dreadful scraping to do?
Quentin Letts on the plight of Speaker Martin.
Do they write like this in the Daily Mail these days? I had no idea.
# posted by Bryan Appleyard : 5:11 AM
3 Comments:
At May 17, 2009 11:24 AM,
Selena Dreamy said…
... and if he doesn't look like a pig on two legs, I never saw one!
At May 17, 2009 1:20 PM,
Sean said…
Throw them in the bin and put them on the expenses claim, would surely be a wiser course of action?..maybe not these days.
At May 17, 2009 6:19 PM,
aboulian said…
John Updike was very very afraid of death. This is not a salutary fear,
from which we may learn: he was rawly, brokenly afraid of it -- so much so that it undermines his expressed Christianity. We can see him scrabbling for palliatives among the metaphysicians and theologians, coming up temporarily soothed by this or that piece of hokum .. but he was just too honest and empirically geared to deafen himself long. His perception (that
of a great novelist) did not stop at the void before and after. I am reminded of Abbott's fallacy, 'That consciousness is a small accident / preventing bliss.'
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