Saturday, 18 October 2014

You could see he was an Englishman first and a Christian second

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Arthur Box-Bender was seeking to make himself agreeable to the domestic prelate '... not a member of your persuasion myself but I'm...

Tactics as interpreted by Brigadier Ritche-Hook consisted of the art of biffing

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Tactics as interpreted by Brigadier Ritche-Hook consisted of the art of biffing. Defence was studied cursorily and only as the period of reo...

For nothing much, he assumed, could reasonably be expected from the commonalty; it was remarkable how well some of them did behave on occasions

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He was quite without class conscousness because he saw the whole intricate social structure of his country divided neatly into two unequal ...
Monday, 6 October 2014

Barcelona had been the clever, rich uncle, aloof, scarcely Spanish at all

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After the medieval towns and villages of central Spain, Barcelona revealed an alien industrial Europe, long squat suburbs and shabby concre...
Friday, 3 October 2014

The chance to make one grand, uncomplicated gesture of personal sacrifice

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You could pick out the British by their nervous jerking heads, native air of suspicion, and constant stream of self-effacing jokes. These, a...
Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Third-rate works surround an outstanding work without any recognition of what fundamentally differentiates them

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Visitors to art museums are often overwhelmed by the number of works on display, and by what they take to be their cupable inability to co...
Sunday, 21 September 2014

Why couldn't her grandfather be waiting for us in a saner, less baroque place?

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How tall was this mountain anyway? Why couldn't her grandfather be waiting for us in a saner, less baroque place? H. Murakami, Hard bo...