The Joy of Curmudgeonry

Monday, 29 June 2009

Costly Tastes

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“Formerly I went frequently to Paris: I saw often many of those who were called ‘the philosophers’. It was particularly at Madame Geoffrin’s...
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Sunday, 28 June 2009

Tomorrow the Whole World

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“The German nationalists . . . fought against the German patchwork of small states and wanted a unified home-market. Today for the same reas...
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Friday, 26 June 2009

Eh-Level History

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Some of our country’s “advanced”-level students of history have been complaining about a question which appeared in an examination: “How far...
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009

The Book of the World

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“Now and then I believe I sense that the book of the world is becoming a little more legible.” [1] It happens to me sometimes: in deepest th...
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Sunday, 21 June 2009

Fewtril no.269

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Not mere apes: modernists . Mere apes might on occasion fling their own excrement, but they never claim it to be some form of new art.
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Fewtril no.268

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To confidence is owed half the success of becoming an intellectual; and to intellect is owed less than half.
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Degenerates

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To depict this age faithfully is an aesthetic sin, and I am therefore often reluctant to sully the page with any unsightly instances of it. ...
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At Dr Cholodenko's Service

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For any taurocoprologist, the appearance of each issue of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies is an exciting event. For me, ho...
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009

An Old Play

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“I guess you are a B.N.P supporter but you have conceded that we Muslims are allies in the fight against the ultra-left anti-family fanatics...
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Tuesday, 9 June 2009

Impressions and Ideas

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“It seemed very natural to think, that the Treatise of human nature required an author, and a very ingenious one too; but now we learn, tha...
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Monday, 8 June 2009

Stupefied

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In reply to a commenter at Comment is Free , who wrote of the interests of the various races and peoples in Britain, and of the officially-d...
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Saturday, 30 May 2009

On Parliaments

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“In Parliaments, Men wrangle in behalf of Liberty, that do as little care for it, as they deserve it.” George Savile, Marquis of Halifax,...
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Friday, 29 May 2009

Cults

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It is true that the word “cult” can be applied maliciously against any small group so as to provoke antipathy towards it; for “cult” now car...
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Races

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“[T]he whole idea of discrete, concrete races is bunk.” [1] I do not know of anyone who believes that human races in the sense under consid...
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Empty Bragging

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“Opening my newspaper the other day, I saw a short but emphatic leaderette entitled ‘A Relic of Medievalism’. It expressed a profound indign...
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Modern Ugliness

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“Not long ago the periphery of the city was untouched meadowland, stretches of bucolic peacefulness unlike anything else in Germany. This h...
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