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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed Dec 17, 2008 6:48 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... mbold.html
The newly-weds caused a scandal in Baghdad when they appeared at a fancy-dress ball as Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas. The Pitt-Riverses then went to live in Andalucia, where Julian began fieldwork for his first book, People of the Sierra (1954). Pauline, a natural linguist, never forgot the compliment a man in a Spanish café paid her, when he asked her to give him one of her eyelashes, so that he might make her a belt with it.
She used to say, of her three husbands, that she had married first a head, then a body, then a head with a body. The Rumbolds bought the Old Rectory at Stinsford, where Thomas Hardy's heart lies in the grave of his first wife, and Pauline enjoyed showing friends the larder, where the great poet's heart had waited, overnight, to be buried.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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etaoin22
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by etaoin22 » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:59 am
What amazing things they do, the English.
These Daily Telegraph obits of important Englishpeople of whom we in the colonies have rarely heard, used to appear very frequently in the National Post when our dear Canadian hero Conrad Black, aka Lord Black of Crossharbour aka US Federal Prisoner number 18330-434, owned them both. Many of the obits told of lives lived with similar conflation of achievement and eccentricity.
