Tuesday, 18 January 2022

Margaret is listening to The Archers and every time I try to say something she just says, "Shh!"

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One day, the Queen came to tea with Princess Margaret. I stayed in the drawing room so that they could have some time together and she went ...
Monday, 17 January 2022

But, then, we were going to kill him - which, I suppose, was rather unlike the Mitfords

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We had decided to make Hitler fall in love with us, which, when I think about it now, was rather like the Mitfords. But, then, we were going...
Thursday, 6 January 2022

The Letter to the Galatians is like the Rhône river before Lake Geneva, and the Letter to the Romans is like the Rhône river after Geneva

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In fact, the key idea of the Letter to the Romans is already found in the Letter to the Galatians - but as one Swiss exegete nicely says, th...
Wednesday, 5 January 2022

One thing that surprises me as I advance in this story is that it has done so little to inspire religious imagery

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One thing that surprises me as I advance in this story is that it has done so little to inspire religious imagery. Before getting started I ...
Tuesday, 4 January 2022

Bustamente had a teasing nature, which in his case took the form of leading a bloody revolution against colonial rule

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The Jamaican Prime Minister, Sir Alexander Bustmente, was the living double of Obbie [12th Duke of] St Albans, and whenever I saw one of the...
Monday, 3 January 2022

You will not find a word in this to offend your protestant sympathies.

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[Evelyn Waugh sends the Duchess of Devonshire a copy of his Life of Monsignor Ronald Knox] The inscription read, 'To darling Debo with ...
Wednesday, 24 November 2021

It could be a fine thing ... to be gently but firmly drunk

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He had discovered, quite be accident, that it could be a fine thing, on a grey, dismal morning - a morning of limp, oyster coloured weather ...