tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post8848939419118292322..comments2024-03-23T08:00:26.020+00:00Comments on THE MONARCHIST: A delicious new book for monarchists (and republicans who have not been completely de-spiritualised)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-12296966633787476722011-04-07T20:47:14.281+01:002011-04-07T20:47:14.281+01:00Every year, as a faculty member at a state univers...Every year, as a faculty member at a state university, I am required to attend three numbing days of "Pre-Service" before fall semester classes begin. In recent years I have taken to consoling myself with a newly-purchased book, which I order ahead of time and open/unwrap during Pre-Service, and begin to read as Droners-On drone on. Secret Places... was my 2010 book and a good choice. In 2008 it was Lebedoff's book on Orwell and Waugh, The Same Man. (The 2009 book was on Herman Melville and, so, not particularly relevant to the interests of this blog.) <br /><br />At the 2003 Pre-Service, a book I carried along was Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review of Books paperback), which I may have exhibited to a few fellow sufferers whom I expected would get the point. I opened it at random to pages 327-8 (Pt. I, Sec. 2, Mem. 3, Subs. 15) which have to do with university admission of "idiots, wasters, idlers, gamesters, boon companions, utterly worthless and abandoned, squanderers and profligates." Burton's censure is of ourselves: "What can we expect when we vie with one another every day in admitting to degrees any and every impecunious student drawn from the dregs of the people," etc.Wurmbrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17345523517796356674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-42766368452258244902011-04-07T20:46:09.936+01:002011-04-07T20:46:09.936+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Wurmbrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17345523517796356674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-63355246500266705762011-04-07T20:44:26.222+01:002011-04-07T20:44:26.222+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Wurmbrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17345523517796356674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-30586073018592968682010-09-14T15:36:45.802+01:002010-09-14T15:36:45.802+01:00Well, if it's as good as you say it is, then I...Well, if it's as good as you say it is, then I'm in too. You have certainly saturated us with enough complements.Tweedsmuirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15545576307045851283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-60259037149665051302010-09-14T14:55:56.652+01:002010-09-14T14:55:56.652+01:00You will swallow it back to cover, Kips, I think y...You will swallow it back to cover, Kips, I think you will find it well worth it. The authors deserve the Templeton Prize for this one.The Monarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10362198840081512460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-13922561355104770862010-09-14T13:26:45.975+01:002010-09-14T13:26:45.975+01:00All right, all right, I'll buy it!All right, all right, I'll buy it!Kiplinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04838567321326673782noreply@blogger.com