Thursday, 1 June 2017

The fellow only has one virtue - his bluntness. He'll be ghastly if he loses that.

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Sir Edgar grunted, he did not trust Clun's sympathy towards Gerald. He thought to himself, I hope Clun isn't going to start getting...
Wednesday, 31 May 2017

Fidelity, in my youth, was largely a question of bad roads and poor bus services

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Fidelity, in my youth, was largely a question of bad roads and poor bus services - the crack-up began when we began to move about. Now mobil...
Tuesday, 30 May 2017

One finds almost every type of our landed gentry

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In Robert of Berkeley's long line of heirs and collaterals, one finds almost every type of our landed gentry - from the dull unremember...
Thursday, 25 May 2017

The silent killer of history’s obligation to truth and objectivity

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British historians have viewed computing technology variously as the handmaiden of postmodernism, as a witless accomplice in the collapse o...
Wednesday, 24 May 2017

There was also that all pervasive sense of eroticism that goes with the boredom of war

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It was the fag end of the war, a quiet conspiratorial time with no secret lives; we were all in it, and by now we knew most things about ea...
Wednesday, 17 May 2017

He'll be much godlier after he's dead

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Am I supposed to feel so much awe and so on about the Godking? After all he's just a man, even if he does live in Awabath in a palace t...
Tuesday, 2 May 2017

For on that shadowed catafalque rests the print of a spirit who when alive seemed to be all things living

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For on that shadowed catafalque rests the print of a spirit who when alive seemed to be all things living - who was lover, soldier, artist,...