Tagesarchive: Mai 18, 2018

Idiocy

‚A most terrible thing has happened. The King of Yugoslavia has been assassinated.’ ‘Oh, dear!’ she replied. ‘Did you know him?’ ‘No,’ I said. ‘Then why,’ she asked, ‘do you think it’s so terrible?’ Her question made me remember that … Weiterlesen

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Christopher Hitchens on Rebecca West on the pacifist movement in England of the 1930s

She reflects on the “anti-war” meetings that she has attended back home and echoes Orwell’s famous attack on the vegetarians, fruit-juice drinkers, sandal wearers, “escaped Quakers,” and other radical cranks by remarking on the eccentric dress of the women at … Weiterlesen

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