Words, dear boy…

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  • 27/09/2020

    Words, dear boy…

    Two quotes from Fintan O’Toole in the NYRB. The first, quoting Saki (H H Munro).

    The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

    The second, his own.

    In this demented solipsism, the entire American past is shrink-fitted so that it hugs Trumps own ample figure, cleaving both to his greatness and his victimhood as an object of unparalleled persecution.