Saturday, 24 September 2011

Modern Art is all bosh, isn't it?

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'They never go near the Louvre,' I said, 'or, if they do, it's only because one of their absurd reviews has suddenly "d...

The languor of Youth – how unique and quintessential it is!

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The languor of Youth – how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the i...
Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Musicals are for the sorts of people who, even though their coach will be awaiting outside the theatre after the show, take their umbrellas

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Musicals are for people who are too thick for opera and too square for pop music. They are for people from the sticks, who migrate en masse ...
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Tuesday, 13 September 2011

The people of Montaillou were not yet afraid of either sex or idleness

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The actual morality of the domus of Montaillou was very different from that created later by Protestant and Catholic, Puritan and Jansenist...
Monday, 12 September 2011

You have to be a mutton chop, not an earl

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[A] Senior conservative, when at lunch, has little leisure for observing anything not immediately on the table in front of him. To attract a...
Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Never for a second are the words Coca-Cola out of one's sight

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The propaganda drive of this firm has been so intensive and so ruthlessly efficient in its execution, that never for a second are the words ...
Monday, 15 August 2011

The alphabet was a founding technology of information

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The alphabet was a founding technology of information. The telephone, the fax machine, the calculator, and, ultimately, the computer are on...