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About Me
- Nige
- Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
Good spot! What a charlie. I read an interview with him about his latest and he sounded as Theodore Zeldin would if he happened to be the Prince of Wales.
ReplyDelete"And what do you do? How absolutely fascinating! I wonder what might have attracted you to working with dog turds? [Provides answer himself through speculative monologue concerning (a) the cultural history of dog turds over the last two thousand years and (b) the possible attractions of the dog turd, forgetting all the while to mention the role and importance of earning money.]"
de Botton, da bum!
ReplyDeleteSee also the posts linked to at Books, Inq. - The Epilogue.
ReplyDeleteMany years ago the Eagle boys comic featured a series with Dan Dare, his arch enemy was a Treen called The Mekon who zoomed around on a buggy that hovered above the ground, de Botton is his double in appearance, he however hovers at an altogether different attitude.
ReplyDeleteLaughable, but also deeply annoying, because in his tantrum the sage writes "depreciate" when he means "deprecate" - an increasingly common error among the subliterate.
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