I always chuckled at the line used to describe Hussey and Adams, I believe, after the 1985 breakup.
"Distorted little creatures with black teeth, who held their forks by the middle and were set on making a career".
Very to the point, very Von. Only, it's probably a quote.
Dividing Lines: Poetry, Class, and Ideology in the 1930s, p.92.
"What is clear is that he mixed with people from the same class. His stated attitude to grammar-school boys at Oxford was one of aggressive superiority. Attending lectures and tutorials is described by McNiece as 'a game for the "monsters", i.e. the grammar-school boys those distorted little creatures with black teeth, who held their forks by the middle and were set on making a career. I used to sit wedged between these monsters at dinner, listening superciliously as they discussed Noel Coward and Bernard Shaw; In my opinion, no one intelligent would mention such writers."
Those 'distorted little creatures'
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Silver_Owl
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I've never heard that quote before, I must confess.copper wrote:I always chuckled at the line used to describe Hussey and Adams, I believe, after the 1985 breakup.
"Distorted little creatures with black teeth, who held their forks by the middle and were set on making a career".
Very to the point, very Von. Only, it's probably a quote.
Dividing Lines: Poetry, Class, and Ideology in the 1930s, p.92.
"What is clear is that he mixed with people from the same class. His stated attitude to grammar-school boys at Oxford was one of aggressive superiority. Attending lectures and tutorials is described by McNiece as 'a game for the "monsters", i.e. the grammar-school boys those distorted little creatures with black teeth, who held their forks by the middle and were set on making a career. I used to sit wedged between these monsters at dinner, listening superciliously as they discussed Noel Coward and Bernard Shaw; In my opinion, no one intelligent would mention such writers."
I like it though.
We forgive as we forget
As the day is long.
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What a bitch.
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Ah Irish poets (if it tis Louis McNeice) always have a way with words!
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]Dividing Lines: Poetry, Class, and Ideology in the 1930s, p.92.[/url]
"What is clear is that he mixed with people from the same class. His stated attitude to grammar-school boys at Oxford was one of aggressive superiority. Attending lectures and tutorials is described by McNiece as 'a game for the "monsters", i.e. the grammar-school boys those distorted little creatures with black teeth, who held their forks by the middle and were set on making a career. I used to sit wedged between these monsters at dinner, listening superciliously as they discussed Noel Coward and Bernard Shaw; In my opinion, no one intelligent would mention such writers."[/quote]
Noel Coward is comedy gold IMO. who ever wrote that was social climbing moron though I do object to people holding their forks in the middle.
"What is clear is that he mixed with people from the same class. His stated attitude to grammar-school boys at Oxford was one of aggressive superiority. Attending lectures and tutorials is described by McNiece as 'a game for the "monsters", i.e. the grammar-school boys those distorted little creatures with black teeth, who held their forks by the middle and were set on making a career. I used to sit wedged between these monsters at dinner, listening superciliously as they discussed Noel Coward and Bernard Shaw; In my opinion, no one intelligent would mention such writers."[/quote]
Noel Coward is comedy gold IMO. who ever wrote that was social climbing moron though I do object to people holding their forks in the middle.
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