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With a preface by John Milbank, one of the world’s most distinguished theologians, this book addresses Radical Orthodoxy; the connections between the Hebraic and the Hellenic traditions; the fallacy of both liberal and reactionary assumptions concerning the Second Vatican Council; Catholicism as, and as more than, Evangelical, Charismatic and liberal; Catholic imaginative writing, and anti-Catholicism as an imaginative stimulus, in Tudor and Stuart England; Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene and Waugh; a Catholic defence of the Confessional State, including the Act of Settlement; the more recent works of Dr Edward Norman; the problems with, and the opportunities for, the Anglican Ordinariate, as well as the left-wing reasons why Parliament should in any case say no to women bishops in the Church of England; and the left-wing defence of Opus Dei.
David Lindsay is a Tutor of Collingwood College, Durham, where he is President of the Senior Common Room and a member of the Governing Body. He is in formation as a Lay Dominican. Born in 1977, since 1999 he has been an elected Parish Councillor in the unusually large Parish of Lanchester, where he served from 1999 to 2007 as a governor of a primary school, and from 2000 to 2008 as a governor of a comprehensive school.
He can be contacted on davidaslindsay@hotmail.com, he can be read at http://davidaslindsay.blogspot.com, he is @davidaslindsay on Twitter, and he is the author of the forthcoming Confessions of an Old Labour High Tory.
Priceless!!! HILARIOUS!!!The "prestigious publisher" you bragged about turns out to be self-publishing!!! Durham is going to drink out on this all term. You even repeat the fraud that got you sacked from The Telegraph, I see. Don't ever give up the comedy gold, "Martin".
ReplyDeleteNo, you stupid boy, that's the other book. Well, the next one, anyway. I always have two on the go at any given time. Don't ever give up the comedy gold, indeed.
ReplyDeleteEverything in this is absolutely factual. It is the Telegraph, and Damain Thompson in particular, that owes you not only an apology but a hell of a lot of money.
ReplyDeleteEven more so when the prestigious publisher indeed brings out the next one. If "David2" were anyone worth knowing, that he would already be in eager and well-informed anticipation of that.
This one also looks like a very good book indeed. I take it that the University Library will be presented with a copy, as tutors do when the publish books?
Needless to say.
ReplyDeleteWhen I get round to it, anyway. With self-publication, one does of course have to arrange one's own complimentary copies. There will be no such trouble with the next one, of course. Nor many another trouble.
A million congratulations from tutees past and present, Mr L. With one exception, but never mind. He has paid for his treachery already, so today is a day to let bygones be bygones. We will if he will. When will Confessions of an Old Labour High Tory be out?
ReplyDeleteMy computer and my insides have been matching each other irritation for irritation over the last fortnight or so, hence the delay in publishing this book. But the final tweaks to the immensely enthusiastic publishers' specifications should be emailed to them late tonight or in the wee small hours of tomorrow morning. Watch this space.
ReplyDeleteJohn Milbank writes prefaces for you! Bloody hell!
ReplyDeleteWell, he has done it once. But then, I have only ever published one book.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why I never tried this before. It's free, I can hardly believe that. They don't charge you a penny to publish your book, they only charge the buyer for printing it and give the rest of the price to the author. Plus with a preface from Milbank you should have no trouble getting reviewed. Let's face it, this was never going to be a bestseller. Backed by Milbank it will reach anyone who was ever going to understand a word of it, unlike your critics and his.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's the next one that will need a bit more publicity, which is why I am getting it out the old-fashioned way. In either case, J K Rowling can sleep easy in her bed. But in this one, I actually know a high proportion of potential readers personally. Still, I have an ISBN, and a preface by John is not half bad for a first effort.
ReplyDeleteAn Amazon-listed book with a big cheese theologian writing the preface, published as "a Tutor of Collingwood College, Durham", you should take Thompson, who by the way knows nothing about theology, for every penny that he has got.
ReplyDeleteA religious affairs journalist need not necessarily know anything about theology, and it might very well be a distinct advantage if he does not.
ReplyDeleteNow, on topic, please.
It takes them a few days to get their stuff Amazon listed but once this is you should fry that spiteful old pervert alive. Then maybe the voice of orthodox Catholics in Britain can be somebody who at least believes in God not somebody who has only spotted a niche and found a cover for cruising.
ReplyDeleteOn topic, please.
ReplyDeleteAs a long-time critic of yours, I've ordered the book and look forward to reading it. I'm sure it will be good food for thought, even if I'm not sure you'll convert me.
ReplyDeleteAnd - if you'll allow me to say so - the book is sure to be more worthwhile than the bickering of those of your commentators who only want to debate your status and the machinations of your allies and enemies; whether they are for you or against you, have they not got better things to do?
Very many thanks. And evidently not. They have been at it all day, trying to post comments about "vanity publishing". In fact, this has cost me nothing and your order has already made me a small profit. Nor will I be following the lead of their cult leader and devoting years of my life to an online vendetta (with spectacular lack of success) against anyone who dares to give it a bad review.
ReplyDeleteWhat cult leader?
ReplyDeleteIt can take them about two months to get things onto Amazon although they always do in the end. But what the hell, we are paid more when people buy it direct from Lulu.
ReplyDeleteThe people suggesting that this is the book you have been talking about on here are having you on, if they were that thick then they wouldn't be able to spell "book". We are all looking forward to Confessions of an Old Labour High Tory. Great title.
Anonymous, Kamm. Of course. But there is no need to sully this post with discussion of that creature.
ReplyDeleteFellow Lulu author, don't I know it. But, as you say, it suits us better when they buy it from Lulu, anyway. And no, they are not having me on. They really that thick.
Certain people must be spitting tacks at the knowledge of who is publishing Confessions of an Old Labour High Tory. Seriously impressive, Mr Lindsay. When you feel like putting out a little something on politics, you can get them to publish it. When you feel like putting out a little something on theology, you can get the most influential theologian in Europe and the Anglosphere to write the preface. Just like that, like it was normal. An upper middle class hero is something to be.
ReplyDeleteWho was that ex-housemate of yours who used to bait you on here in the early days? Whatever happened to him? After all, was he not a PhD theologian? I am just wondering what he has ever published and how famous was the author of the preface, that's all.
ReplyDeleteAll I know is that he followed the well-worn path from student Trot to London Blairite in search of a seat, right when Blairism was coming to an end, but never mind. I was never a student Trot, so I have never been a London Blairite. He did get his doctorate, so there must be articles, at least, out there somewhere. In fact, I'd be quite interested to find out.
ReplyDeleteSo there we have it. Being "a Tutor of Collingwood College, Durham" leads to publishing a book "With a preface by John Milbank, one of the world’s most distinguished theologians" on "Radical Orthodoxy; the connections between the Hebraic and the Hellenic traditions; the fallacy of both liberal and reactionary assumptions concerning the Second Vatican Council; Catholicism as, and as more than, Evangelical, Charismatic and liberal; Catholic imaginative writing, and anti-Catholicism as an imaginative stimulus, in Tudor and Stuart England; Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene and Waugh; a Catholic defence of the Confessional State, including the Act of Settlement; the more recent works of Dr Edward Norman; the problems with, and the opportunities for, the Anglican Ordinariate, as well as the left-wing reasons why Parliament should in any case say no to women bishops in the Church of England; and the left-wing defence of Opus Dei."
ReplyDeleteDamian Thompson owes you a fortune and a very high profile apology. Our mutual friend Arthur Middleton also published rather a lot of fairly high powered material specifically as "a Tutor of St Chad's College's, Durham". That was what it said in his blurbs and at the bottom of his many articles. This is normal. The likes of Jon whose university experience was totally non-academic beyond drunkenly persecuting people like us who knew which way up to hold a book should never have been allowed to get away with portraying the whole of Durham as like that when their noses were put out of joint by your being given something ahead of them.
Glittering ornament of Collingwood you may have become, but this is very much a Chadsman's book.
ReplyDeleteYep, anyone who read only the first paragraph and had to name a Durham college would say Chad's without hesitation. You have been a tutor at various colleges but there can be no doubt where you were formed.
ReplyDeleteThe university directory lists you as "Academic/management staff", a status apparently peculiar to yourself. A way of saying that David Lindsay is David Lindsay and that, dear boy, is all you need to know. No change there.
There'll never be another.
From the latest Street of Shame:
ReplyDelete“Norman Tebbit, Janet Daley, Christopher Howse, Toby Young. No, not the cast of the forthcoming Addams Family remake, but some of the stars of the “rolling comment” factory that is Telegraph Blogs.
And long may they remain so – for the website has quietly introduced a culling strategy of its lowest-performing contributors. Every writer is rated according to the number of hits their blog gets each month. Anyone who stays in the lowest 25 per cent for three months running is put on warning. Linger in the bottom quarter for a further three months and you get dropped.
So it’s reasoned argument out, provocative headlines and attention-catching barminess in. And on that basis, which blogger holds the top position, month in, month out? James Delingpole. “He’s always number one, because he really is batshit mad,” mutters a lower-performing colleague.”
A man of your intellect and erudition is very well out of it, David.
So much for you not being an academic. The university directory calls you academic staff (that is true, I have just checked) which does seem to settle the matter and as for this book, wow, that is some range, with a grand enough preface contributor to demonstrate that you are no dilettante. You should sue the Telegraph, and Thompson personally, and the claque of your drugged up, washed up contemporaries who egged him on. But you won’t. You have always been too nice for your own good.
ReplyDeleteTHAT's some range? You obviously haven't heard the very strong rumours about Confessions of an Old Labour High Tory.
ReplyDeleteA great man. A very, very, very great man.
F*%k me, it's true. The University Directory says that you are a member of the academic staff. Thompson owes you a f*%king fortune for wrongful dismissal, loss of reputation, loss of earnings based on where you would have been by now. Bleed him dry, the c*%t.
ReplyDeleteOn topic, please.
ReplyDeleteWhy haven't you published it to Kindle?
ReplyDeleteI don’t understand Kindle. But the book can be downloaded for a fiver. In six to eight weeks’ time, once it is on Amazon, then it will presumably be downloadable to Kindle. Won’t it?
ReplyDeleteI may buy this. I have bought other books on LULU and they have been pestering me to buy something else.
ReplyDeleteYours looks like a safe bet.
(an ex-Ushaw, ex Durham Uni RC PP)
Very many thanks, Father.
ReplyDelete"Confessions of an Old Labour High Tory"
ReplyDeleteI will buy it - if it printed on toilet paper. It must be soft, strong and thoroughly absorbent.
Come to think about it, I will get the first book as well. I will contact your "publisher" to see if they will print it on toilet paper.
I have nothing against you publishing the books except my bottom.
No part of you would understand anything to do with Radical Orthodoxy; the connections between the Hebraic and the Hellenic traditions; the fallacy of both liberal and reactionary assumptions concerning the Second Vatican Council; Catholicism as, and as more than, Evangelical, Charismatic and liberal; Catholic imaginative writing, and anti-Catholicism as an imaginative stimulus, in Tudor and Stuart England; Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene and Waugh; a Catholic defence of the Confessional State, including the Act of Settlement; the more recent works of Dr Edward Norman; the problems with, and the opportunities for, the Anglican Ordinariate, as well as the left-wing reasons why Parliament should in any case say no to women or the left-wing defence of Opus Dei.
ReplyDeleteAnd that is before we start about the next book: a wholly alternative vision of British politics, actually in keeping with the views and values of the British people; the cults of Tony Blair (such as there is), of Margaret Thatcher and of Winston Churchill; the Jacobite roots of the American Republic, of the campaign against the slave trade, of Radical and Tory action against social evils, of the extension of the franchise, of the creation of the Labour Movement, and of opposition to the Boer and First World Wars; the conservative, Tory arguments against nuclear weapons and against Post Office privatisation; the restoration of liberty as the condition for the restoration of proper sentencing and of proper regimes in prison; the potential role of the Liberal Democrats in general and of Simon Hughes in particular on this and other issues; the Catholic, left-wing and all-Ireland case for the Union; the real Islamic threat; the real historical and contemporary relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States; and the lies spread in advance of the Pope’s State Visit to Britain, including the character of the liars who spread them.
Oh dear, BDJ. Oh, dear...
Kamm has posted a vicious little comment on the book's Lulu page.
ReplyDeleteWhat else does he have to do these days? I wish him as much success against me as he has had against Neil Clark.
ReplyDeleteI have to hand it to you, Mr L. Kamm has had you blacklisted in literary London, so you have just gone ahead through Lulu and they can all swivel on it. Looks like a great book, as does the next one.
ReplyDeleteWriting about Chesterton in order to invite comparisons with him, writing about Edward Norman in order to inherit his mantle.
ReplyDeleteI see that we have found the level.
ReplyDeleteWho's a pretty polymath?
ReplyDeleteLoving the comments on the book's Lulu page, one by a loony and the other by a very bitter man indeed. The first one is the usual rubbish but then so is the other one, "Not a proper academic blah, blah, blah".
ReplyDeleteListed as academic staff on the university directory, but not a proper academic. Got no less than John Milbank (Phillip Blond's intellectual godfather) to write the preface to your book, but not a proper academic.
Author of that book on "Radical Orthodoxy; the connections between the Hebraic and the Hellenic traditions; the fallacy of both liberal and reactionary assumptions concerning the Second Vatican Council; Catholicism as, and as more than, Evangelical, Charismatic and liberal; Catholic imaginative writing, and anti-Catholicism as an imaginative stimulus, in Tudor and Stuart England; Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene and Waugh; a Catholic defence of the Confessional State, including the Act of Settlement; the more recent works of Dr Edward Norman; the problems with, and the opportunities for, the Anglican Ordinariate, as well as the left-wing reasons why Parliament should in any case say no to women bishops in the Church of England; and the left-wing defence of Opus Dei", but not a proper academic.
About to publish another one, this time on "a wholly alternative vision of British politics, actually in keeping with the views and values of the British people; the cults of Tony Blair (such as there is), of Margaret Thatcher and of Winston Churchill; the Jacobite roots of the American Republic, of the campaign against the slave trade, of Radical and Tory action against social evils, of the extension of the franchise, of the creation of the Labour Movement, and of opposition to the Boer and First World Wars; the conservative, Tory arguments against nuclear weapons and against Post Office privatisation; the restoration of liberty as the condition for the restoration of proper sentencing and of proper regimes in prison; the potential role of the Liberal Democrats in general and of Simon Hughes in particular on this and other issues; the Catholic, left-wing and all-Ireland case for the Union; the real Islamic threat; the real historical and contemporary relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States; and the lies spread in advance of the Pope’s State Visit to Britain, including the character of the liars who spread them", but not a proper academic.
Looks like they have been looking in the mirror and seeing that bad, mad and sad thing, a failed academic. Did you once share a house with one, do you reckon? Yet here is one of their contemporaries, an obviously very successful academic.
Plus if you were a governor of two schools while still only 21 or 22, why did you ever want to be a JCR chair or a Union Society president? You have found your natural level presiding over an SCR. Very you. After all, you are clearly a distinguished academic. Anybody doubting that need only check the university directory.
Breathtakingly erudite. Your fitting of that much into about 30,000 words and 163 pages of A5 is a masterclass.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to Kamm on successfully diverting the discussion on the Lulu page into whether or not you really are on the academic staff at Durham, which THE UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY says you are.
A masterclass in what he does, as the book itself is a masterclass in what you do. The difference is that what you do is worthwhile. You are worthwhile. He is not.
If you can write this and it is good enough to get Prof. Milbank to write the preface, you are a valuable asset to Durham. You always were, the people who hated you always did because they knew you were so much better than them. It is truly comical that they are still at it after all these years. A previous comment is right, why did you ever care about student positions, and I say that as someone who voted for you? How many "proper" Durham academics have recently produced anything on all of these subjects with this level of concision and this class of recommendation? Some, I suppose, but not many. Having said that, according to the University's own website you are one of its proper academics. A bloody good one, evidently.
ReplyDeleteFour of your chapters are reviews of other people's books and I happen to know that one of those authors is delighted. I shall be seeing another one in the next few days and I have no doubt that the reaction will be the same. Keep up your superb work.
ReplyDeleteJust ... wow!!! If this is what mere college tutors (no offence) are writing at Durham these days ... wow!!! Genius. Pure genius. Guaranteed to annoy all the right people.
ReplyDeleteI am starting to see the GKC comparison. The sheer range of this book, the compelling arguments, the brilliant turn of phrase, the fortcoming second book just as wideranging and undoubtedly just as compelling and brilliant: yes, I am starting to think that another Chesterton is here in our midst.
ReplyDeleteI cannot understand this book so it must be poorly written and the author must have faked his CV. The sentences are quite long and contain incomprehensible words like Vedantic so they must be ungrammatical. When the university directory says academic/management staff obviously it does not mean academic/management staff. David Lindsay has no scholarly achievements at all apart from publishing this book with a preface from someone called John Milbank. A collection of occasional pieces should have a single unifying argument from start to finish. I know all these things because I am a Durham fresher who used to go out with one of David Lindsay's Collingwood tutees even though they do not exist and all my life everyone has told me how clever I am. So there.
ReplyDeleteI am leaving the Lulu lot to it and instead making my way over here to say that this is a fantastically good book. It must be the ex-Anglican in you, haven't you heard that Catholics are supposed to cringe, modifying everything to suit the Anglican Liberal Establishment and apologising profusely when the Pope fails to know his place like that?
ReplyDeleteRadical Orthodoxy was the nearest thing allowed to a Patristic/Medieval critique of Modernity and Postmodernity because it was written by people who were nominally C of E no matter how High and who declared their separation from Rome in the Introduction. But there is none of that with you. This book is outstanding.
It is circus season. Wouldn't be better for you to take up the profession that is obviously your full-time hobby-
ReplyDeleteBeing a clown.
I wouldn't want to destroy your livelihood, BDJ.
ReplyDeleteIt is all good, but reading the third chapter, on Vatican II, was like turning on a light.
ReplyDeleteOk then, let's see their better book on Radical Orthodoxy; the connections between the Hebraic and the Hellenic traditions; Vatican II; Catholicism in relation to the Evangelical, Charismatic and liberal movements; Alison Shell's Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination; Ian Ker's The Catholic Revival in English Literature; Paul Avis's Church, State and Establishment; Edward Norman's An Anglican Catechism, Secularisation, Anglican Difficulties, and The Roman Catholic Church; the Anglican Ordinariate; and Opus Dei.
ReplyDeleteLet's see if they can get a better preface author than John Milbank and let's see if they can get a better publisher than Lulu. Come on, let's be having you.
@Lucy, they are keeping their powder dry for their immensely important book on the conservative and patriotic British left wing (or not); Blair, Thatcher and Churchill; the Jacobite roots (or not) of the movements for peace and social justice; nuclear weapons; Post Office privatisation; the restoration of liberty as the condition for the restoration of proper sentencing and of proper regimes in prison (or not); the potential role of the Liberal Democrats (or not); the Irish Question; Islam and the West; Anglo-American history and relations; and the calumnies (or not) against the Catholic Church. I can tingling with anticipation. Or not.
ReplyDeleteDon't you love the way they go on about David's long ago Telegraph blog? Remind me, which of them was given the gig instead, as was the obvious intention? That's right, none of them. If anything Damian Thompson has had to employ several pale imitations of David, each dealing with an aspect of his agenda but no one coming close to his full range. Few of them have lasted very long, either. But none of them was one of our Durham generation that had a collective fit of hysteria when they saw David's name and picture on Telegraph Blogs instead of theirs. I wonder why not.
Jon in particular definitely wanted the Telegraph spot for himself. Those of us who remember him at Durham remember that he could hardly form words, never mind sentences. But he had been to some posh school that made sure he stole someone else's university place and he was so thick that he did not even realise that that was all he was. A recurring theme among David's critics. Right up to today, I am told. Now where is their better version of this book? I can't wait.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised that they could read David's Telegraph blog. I was surprised that they could read, they showed no signs of it when we knew them and they were savage towards the David Lindsays of the world who dared to do such a thing. They have absolutely no hope of understanding this book, so they are not going to come up with a better effort. But I would love to see them try. I would also love to see Damian Thompson try. Can it be that the voice and arbiter of Catholic Truth in England knows nothing about theology?
ReplyDeleteI say again, a religious affairs journalist need not necessarily know anything about theology.
ReplyDeleteWe already have John Milbank's view, the most important that we now await are those of your old friend Alison Shell, Ian Ker, Paul Avis, Edward Norman, the most distinguished scholar in the Ordinariate (who is that, by the way?) and someone similar in Opus Dei.
ReplyDeleteKamm alter egos, bitter Lindsay contemporaries and current Durham students, if they are really are, might not realise it, but they are not as important in the fields covered by this book. If they are reading this: no, you are not. Really, truly, honestly, you are not.
They'll never get their heads around that.
ReplyDeleteIs John Milbank aware that he has supplied a preface for this book? I ask because Lindsay has a naughty habit of signing other people's names to documents they've never read, which is why he was sacked by Chad's.
ReplyDeleteI have never been employed by Chad's (although I was an undergraduate there), I leave that to my friends from the Principal down. You really are going to have to do better than this.
ReplyDeleteDavid is an active Chad's Old Boy who is very pally indeed with the Principal, the same one as in his day, the Chaplain, a contemporary in the Theology Dept, and the Alumni Officer, a fresher when David was a finalist. The chairman of his Dominican Tertiaries group is secretary of the SCR. I could go on. He is very much in favour in college and writing this book with this preface author will only have increased his standing there. This book will be favourably reviewed everywhere that the readers can understand a word of it, and the reviewers might very well be on the senior staff of Chad's.
ReplyDeleteJohn Milbank is a member of David's political supporters' group on Facebook, they are obviously close. Face it, in that admittedly small pond, David is a bigger and bigger fish. He was always our great white hope. He was always going to end up a player while the drunks and junkies who made our lives a misery because we had come to university to study were always going to be washed up. He was always going to have the last laugh on behalf of all of us. Now he has. Deal with it. Even before the next book with its much bigger audience.
The lot on the Lulu page are all the same person under multiple accounts, you don't have to subscribe to form criticism to see that. So I am leaving him to it and coming over here to thank you from the bottom of my heart for this book. Congratulations on saying what so many of us have been thinking, congratulations on getting Milbank, and congratulations on publishing it yourself rather than wasting time on the extremely liberal publishing industry in this country, perhaps especially where supposedly Catholic material is concerned.
ReplyDeleteYou were certainly in Chad's from day one of your BA until the day you graduated and I am not surprised that you are still on good terms with the old place. You turn up to things like the Chad's Day service and the Advent Procession in college tie and academic regalia, very fine. As one of the earlier comments put it, this is very much a Chadsman's book. The Principal, same one is in our day, would be ideal to review it somewhere and would be very sympathetic towards a lot of it. But I expect you already know that.
ReplyDeleteUndeniably, Tom, they are all the same person over on Lulu. They should try a bit harder to disguise that sorry fact. They are doing what Mr Lindsay's critics often do and pretending to be/have been at Durham while making howling errors about the place that prove they have never been anywhere near it. Fairly frustarting to have to wade through, but very, very funny all the same.
ReplyDeleteI'm on such bad terms with Chad's that in 2009, after I hadn't been to the Advent Procession for a few years what with one thing and another, I was sent through the post a special invitation from the College Fellows and Officers, requesting the pleasure of my company at it.
ReplyDeleteAs has repeatedly been said, the college had then, and has now, the same Principal as it did when I was an undergraduate there. Honestly, where do my would-be enemies get their "information"? I know: they just make it up.
Well of course they just make it up. Look at the filthy rag where alone they have ever managed to get it into print. How hilarious was that? They seriously believed that they could get rid of you and they still cannot comprehend that nobody who is anybody reads that thing, in fact everybody of any real importance in this university literally will not have it in the room with them. You know that, I know that, but that absurd little boy and the rest of them still have no idea that they do not matter in the slightest and that nothing written in there makes any difference to anything. To be attcaked in there in positively good for serious people at Durham. Look at your ongoing rise after they had done their worst. Bless them.
ReplyDeleteWhile David was on the operating table, his genuinely powerful friends did a lot more than bless the little c*nts. They won't mess with him again if they have any sense, but they probably don't.
ReplyDeleteOn topic, please.
ReplyDeleteWhat rag? Not Palatinate, surely? You have gone up in further in my estimations, Mr Lindsay. You have entered the Dunelm Pantheon by being savaged by that particular dead sheep, it is like one of those ceremonies at Shinto shrines in which souls are made objects of worship. You are an even greater man than I had already known, not only for that, but also for this brilliant book, guaranteed as your writing always is to annoy all the right people. Palatinate, indeed! No wonder they made you President of the SCR.
ReplyDeleteDoes that still exist? One vaguely imagined that the university's patience must have been exhausted years ago. But then again, it is so harmless that why not leave it be, as an object of ridicule by the grown-ups?
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