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Paring his fingernails idly "one could argue the hegemon" while the workers die in the streets Very nasty

Being sincere in England is a one way ticket to getting a deliciously droll barb aimed at your spleen

But then as noted by others it can be a backhanded compliment "The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them; they can inflict on them continual blows of contradiction and disproof...

Does Auden actually cite any examples of what he's talking about there? Interesting here is Audrn emigrated stateside, which was seen by many Englishers as cowardice and which many Englishers (Larkin included) saw as the terminus of his talent. I wonder if he was gassing up the yank poets...

They even shoot each other in them sometimes Poor form

You can't say "lo", sorry Bobby!

Flowery writing as usual Barney. Yes Rice was the star but don’t you think you could have noticed Trossard’s role in the third goal? I find you often bend facts or drop events to suit your narrative. Maybe learning from the precision of Rice’s strikes would help you ? - Corpsey

Little Fly Thy summers play, My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink & sing: Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength & breath: And the want Of thought is death; Then am I A happy...

Just ran 7.5km, the furthest I've ever run (It wasn't very fast) Annoyingly, I've been running recently and trying to eat better and I just can't shift this massive beer gut that I've accumulated over decades

I wonder if in America poetry was seen as an effeminate ponce's pasttime, even more so than in England You have that certain strain in American literature of rugged masculinity Maybe I'm channelling martin amis here, but think of all the big swinging dicks/dickheads of American literature...

Not sure it's a classic but this is the first film by the guy who made "Mandy" and that one episode of Del Toro's netflix series so I'm intrigued

I guess rather than a debate over which city's best I was thinking more throwing it up for various cities Yes missed san Francisco, Miami, new Jersey too.

You wouldn’t kneel down to pray for your mother on her deathbed when she asked you. Why? Because you have the cursed jesuit strain in you, only it’s injected the wrong way.

I'm sure I've missed or been unable to include some super important city like Hoboken but

Getting too interested in this I'd better go out and enjoy the sun

Protestantism was I suppose the (brutal in every sense) English import, the aristocratic religion. I always wish I knew more about how religious sectarianism shaped our culture (and others)—I've got a massive book by Diarmaid McCulloch "Reformation" but I'll never get around to it I suppose

This is how I imagine barty's average day goes

I saw it at the BFI must be 4-5 years back now and although I did really like it there were elements where I thought kubrick was trying to be funny and bombing hard

https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/did-anthony-burgess-hate-the-american-ending-of-a-clockwork-orange/

Kubrick changes the ending, too, doesn't he. Burgess has Alex grow up, if not repent, and Kubrick has him ready to go out raping again.