Told By An Idiot
A British Literature, Historical, Classics book. To be cool, skeptical and passionate at one and the same time - it has...
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- Pages: 336 pages
- ISBN: 9781844082025 / 1844082024
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Life was well enough, she thought; well enough, and a gay enough business for those who had the means to make it so, and the temperament to find it so. Life was no great matter, and nor, certainly, was death; but it was well enough. We come and we go; we are born, we live, and we die; this poor ball, thought Rome, serves us for all that; and on the whole, we make too much complaint of it, expect, one way and another, too much of it. It is, after all, but a turning ball, which has burst, for some reason unknown to science, into a curious, interesting... You may, for instance, inquire of a popular preacher, or any one else, who denounces his countrymen as "pagan" (as speakers, and even Bishops, at religious gatherings have been known to do) what, exactly, he means by this word, and you will find that he means irreligious, and is apparently oblivious of the fact that pagans were and are, in their village simplicity, the most religious persons who have ever flourished, having more gods to the square mile then the Christian or any other Church has ever possessed or desired, and paying these gods more devout... Vicky's mind reached vainly back towards '55, and could not get there. Crinolines and sweeping whiskers, the Pre-Raphaelites and the Crimea, Bible orthodoxy and the Tractarians, all the great Victorians. A dim, entrancing period, when papa and mamma were getting married, and people were too old-fashioned to see life straight as it was. And to grandpapa, 55 was quite lately, just the other day, and '80 was like an engine got loose from its train and dashing madly in advance, heading precipitately for a crash. Rose Macaulay, Told By An Idiot //
What a joy to pick up a Rose Macaulay again. Eccentric characters, entirely their own people, leap at one from the pages and the reader can delight in their world and should that be needed or appropriate escape from the tiresome beings one has to deal with in real life If you want to spend time with a supremely witty and intelligent woman, read this book. In keeping with its title, "Told by an Idiot" doesn't bother much with plot. Macaulay follows the fortunes of a family from 1879 until the aftermath of WWI, her central thesis being that stuff just happens to individuals and societies without any... I really liked it - a wry romp, tracing a late Victorian (then Edwardian, then Georgian), somewhat absurd family, mostly in broad brushes, from 1870s to just past WW1. Although it does delve into two or three character's minds deeper, I was surprised how distinctive personalities emerged, and that I cared about them. One of the themes...
