"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"

"The Hindoos, apparently not having Gods enough of their own, worship those of other sects whenever they come in their…"

"I cannot help remarking the extreme mildness of the native character. Every one seems to walk slowly and lightly; all…"

"The Hindoo character is highly deserving minute study; for I know no other people who resemble them, or any known pri…"

"I want to see things done with creativity and lots of consultations, and not being decided by people who’ve been poli…"

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"An industrial worker would sooner have a £5 note but a countryman must have praise."

"As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and with no expl…"

"The Tuscan poet Dante Alighieri had a simple explanation for England’s problematic status in fourteenth-century Europ…"

"The government of Mortimer and Isabella was intensely hated. It proved to be just as vindictive, despotic and unstabl…"