Heartland

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."

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've never heard that quote before, I must confess.
I like it though.

What a bitch.

Ah Irish poets (if it tis Louis McNeice) always have a way with words!

]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.