Friday, 21 August 2015

These new motor coaches ... are voluptuous, sybaritic, of doubtful morality

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I doubt if even the most expensive private motors—those gigantic, three-thousand-pound machines—are as determinedly and ruthlessly comforta...
Thursday, 6 August 2015

Christ was a sort of an Englishman and Englishmen did not as a rule refuse to do their jobs

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He doubted, however, whether Christ would have refused to manage Groby had it been his job. Christ was a sort of an Englishman and Englishm...
Wednesday, 5 August 2015

You seduced a young woman in order to be able to finish your talks with her

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The beastly Huns! They stood between him and Valentine Wannop. If they would go home he could be sitting talking to her for whole afternoon...
Tuesday, 4 August 2015

For I hold no man ought to refuse an honour in times like these ... because it is like slapping the sovereign in the face

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'...But as it is I propose to refuse it and ask for a knighthood, if it won't too sicken you to have me a Sir...For I hold no man o...
Monday, 3 August 2015

the Almighty as, on a colossal scale, a great English Landowner, benevolently awful, a colossal duke who never left his study and was thus invisible

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Tietjens had walked in the sunlight down the lines, past the hut with the evergreen climbing rose, in the sunlight, thinking in an interval...
Tuesday, 21 July 2015

That, it appeared, was the High Toryism of Tietjens as it was the extreme Radicalism of the extreme Left of the Left.

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And over their port they agreed on two fundamental legislative ideals: every working man to have a minimum of four hundred a year and every...
Monday, 20 July 2015

As a political matter, is home cooking today a reactionary or progressive way to spend one's time?

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Is cooking a form of oppression, as many feminists argued (with some justification, I might add) in the 1960s? Back in the 1970s, KFC ran b...