My Commonplace Blog

A digital form of the sadly lost fashion for copying out memorable passages from texts. I kept losing my actual book.

Friday, 31 March 2023

I've just bought Hertfordshire, you know

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I am a man of multiple interests: a senator, military man, businessman, I undertake trading missions for the government , and I'm a land...

The Kindly Ones is simply “Houellebecq does Nazism.”

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Well-intentioned friends send me everything they can find about Jonathan Littell, and I am yet again forced to return to the subject. Things...
Thursday, 30 March 2023

Sport? What a load of fascist rubbish it is

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Reading Heydrich's speech, I have three comments: In the Czech state, as elsewhere, the feeblest defender of the values of the national ...
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Wednesday, 29 March 2023

Vile Chamberlain, a man whose spinelessness is equalled only by his blindness.

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Unfortunately, it is not yet Churchill who guides the destiny of Britain and the world, but the vile Chamberlain, a man whose spinelessness ...
Tuesday, 28 March 2023

The very foundations of his fortune are laid deep in sacrilege, fortunes built out of deserted shrines and pillaged altars

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The Duke of Devonshire issues a circular applying for subscriptions to oppose this Bill, and he charges us with robbery of God. Does he know...
Monday, 27 March 2023

The millstones of Capital and Labour, the upper and the nether, grind slowly but exceeding small

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And Liberalism . . . Liberalism, with its fatal trust in compromise, had evaded the issue onc e again. But, slide and wriggle as it would, t...
Sunday, 26 March 2023

Something must certainly be done for them: not too much, of course, that would never do; but something

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For Liberalism, after all, implies rather more than a political creed or an economic philosophy; it is a profoundly conscience-stricken stat...
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