Fable of the Recondite
I woke up this morning (nothing knew there, but I wanted to set the scene) and had Kingsley Amis on my lips: “I dislike men and women when they are cold-hearted (a reserved manner is okay), unpleasant to those who can’t hit back (especially copy editors, waiters, and infants), unable to allow others to finish a sentence, stingy, bad hosts, bad guests, affected, racialist, intolerant of homosexuality, anti-British, and passively boring.”
And now I feel a lot better.
