Sounds like MacDonald Fraser sourced it from a Phil-Alfie (Price)-Kaiser Bill incident in Devon. It’s fiction’s loss that GMF didn’t discover the Sausage Duel: As a cofounder and member of the liberal party (Deutsche Fortschrittspartei) [Rudolf Virchow] was a leading political antagonist of Bismarck. He was opposed to Bismarck’s excessive military budget, which angered Bismarck…
Tribadvisor. { Robert Chester?: Go, crampe dull Mars, light Venus, when he snorts / Or with thy Tribade Trine, invent new sports. } < { the French (note the Revolutionary morality) }, but the pun doesn’t seem to have surfaced in French, presumably because (a) aviser is a false friend – try conseiller, (b) the…
I recently read Edmund Morris’ great biography of Theodore Roosevelt, and someone suggested that for some continuity as well as change I segue into the collected works of Zane Grey. Grey is the great romancier of the American West, and his theme – the forging of the American Nation – is that of Roosevelt: birth…
Tengo fiesta esta noche, pero por la mañana bajaré por Rambla Cataluña, etc. Para quien quiera hacer peticiones, he aquí el repertorio de hoy. Más repertorio aquí.
Here. The usual cry: The evidence has been destroyed, so you need to read between the lines. Every political movement worth anything is composed of loonies, fools and thieves (I speak as an ex-warrior), and I don’t think it’s defamatory to suggest that the loonies are quite grossly over-represented in this one. I also miss…
Something that’s been bothering me for a while: Every time a Brussels spokespoisson pops up and says that secession will leave Catalonia outside the EU, the secessionists say that that poisson is a liar or a simpleton. If they sincerely believe that the EU is run by such people, why then do they wish to…
This is the greatest painting ever painted by a human being. Look well. This is up there with Guernica and the Scream. It is primitive and visceral. It gives Putin the Dorian Gray treatment he has so long been asking for. Look at those creepy scabs of eyebrows. Look at the murky mud-mask of the…
