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17 November 2017
Amusing Cufflinks
Bought as a present, I loved these cufflinks and the recipient does, too. They arrived very quickly.
11 September 2022
A Truly Picaresque Book
This is a fascinating account of Rory Stewart's retracing the route of the Emperor Babur, conqueror of India. It took him across central Afghanistan. A gallery of portraits of fascinating rogues and vagabonds; mainly Muslim. He also visited the Bamiyan former Buddhist site. I admit to getting a bit tired of descrpitions of bloody-minded officials, squalor and lack of washing facilities. I admire the author for putting up with so much hardship and discomfort. A truly picaresque account. (Picaresque probably derives from the old Spanish word 'picarro' - a rogue or vagabond - it has come to mean travelling rough and books about travelling rough.)
08 May 2024
An interesting reappraisal of Lord Alfred Douglas
This book is well written; I don't think that Douglas Murray, whom I knew mainly as a political writer, is capable of writing a boring book. In addition to recounting the well-known story of the fall of Oscar Wilde, in which Lord Alfred Douglas and his father, the Marquis of Queensberry, played a central role, I learned much more about Lord Alfred. He was not just a pretty face; he was a serious, published poet who was regarded as one of the best living in the early twentieth century. He specialised in sonnets; a challenging poetic form. One has the impression of a first-class brain which was wasted at Oxford but which should have secured Douglas an honoured position in English letters. Poetry, however, did not earn megabucks (unless you were Tennyson), so Douglas lived for most of his life on allowances from family members and occasional wins from litigation. He died bankrupt.