November 2011
18 posts
“‘Sleeping around’ - that was how he had heard a young American girl...”
– From Aldous Huxley’s Point Counter Point, attributed to the free-living painter John Bidlake, who is believed to be in part modeled on Augustus John. Since Point Counter Point was published in 1928 this is a far earlier use of the expression than I would’ve guessed.
Huxley mentions the war.
Novels of the twenties and thirties are filled with the First World War, the horror of it haunts those who fought, most, in one way or another are mourning lost comrades, husbands, lovers and brothers, and the social and intellectual changes the novels document were caused or hastened by the war. However, there seems to me to often be a reluctance to actually mention the war, Aldous...
TD's Bernard Durkan and Anthony Lawlor and the...
Last week, after I heard about Darren Scully’s shocking racist remarks, I wrote to the two Fine Gael TD’s for his constituency, Bernard Durkan and Anthony Lawlor. I felt that it was important that Irish politicians provide leadership in pointing out the damaging stupidity of Scully’s views. I wrote
In the light of your party and constituency colleague’s remarks, I am...
“I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind...”
– The great Marie Curie: instructions regarding a proposed gift of a wedding dress for her marriage to Pierre in July 1895, as quoted in ”Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 137
from Wikiquotes.
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Jonathan Coe: your question answered. →
Dear Jonathan Coe,
At the end of your review, linked above, you implicitly ask a question; here is the answer:
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