'Blimey, my eyes are fair wore out!' And so is what passes for my brain. Today's Telegraph was jam-packed with fascinating articles. Of course, the fickle finger of fate being what it is - a pain in the arse! - there has been an electrical fault in part of our development so that my reserve freezer, along with my neighbours, has been switched off and I have been seriously interrupted in my reading.
All very disgraceful and it means that you, my dear readers, have been left bereft of my wit and wisdom - don't say it! - but as always I have a superb offering to fill your time. From the London Review of Books, a terrific review written by the great Ferdinand Mount, formerly of The Spectator and a man whose laundry list would be worth reading! In this essay he is reviewing a recently published biography of the late Gen. de Gaulle who really was "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma". It is a long review but then the book itself runs to 877 pages! Anyway, anything written by, er, Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet, to use his full title, is always worth a read, so go to it!
Well David, you have caught me 'flat footed' re-reading "Education and the Good Life" by Bertrand Russell. Eye opening! I haven't touched this book in decades.
Gen. de Gaulle... a monstrous ego wrapped in a uniform.
Posted by: Whitewall | Saturday, 18 August 2018 at 16:16