Tuesday, October 31, 2006

News at Eleven: They were astonished. This is

on a par with the section in The Dynasts where he [Thomas Hardy] considers the effect of troop movements at Waterloo on the local hedgehogs, moles and snails, or with his refusal to have the trees round his house lopped because it would hurt them, or with the tea parties he gave for the neighbourhood cats.

from The Sunday Times: Down among the women

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