Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of Ben Sonnenberg's quarterly in the autumn of 1981. The essay opened with a kind of encouragement: 'There used to ...
Parvati has wrathful incarnations surely, As Durga, Kali, Shitala Devi, Tara, Chandi, She has benevolent forms like Katyayani, Kamalatmika, Bhuvaneshwari, Lalita, Gauri. Parvati as the Goddess of Power does be, Who source of all forms and of all bein...
The radicals assumed that acting was more important than speaking. Talking and writing books, Winstanley insisted, is 'all nothing and must die; for action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act, thou dost nothing.' It is a thought worth ponder...
Susie: Hi Calvin! Aren't you excited about going to school? Look at all these great school supplies I got! I love having new notebooks and stuff! Calvin:All I've got to say is they're not making me learn any foreign languages. If English is good enou...
The standard modern measurement for inebriation is the Ose system. This has been considerably developed over the years, but the common medical consensus currently has jocose, verbose, morose, bellicose, lachrymose, comatose, adios. This is a workable...
Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations whe...
Almásy: Let me tell you about winds. There is a, a whirlwind from southern Morrocco, the aajej, against which the fellahin defend themselves with knives. And there is the... the ghibli, from Tunis... Katharine Clifton: [giggling] The "ghibli"? Almá...
[suspects in a lineup are asked to read a phrase] Interrogation Cop: Number 1, step forward. Hockney: Hand me the keys, you fucking cocksucker. Interrogation Cop: Number 2, step forward. McManus: Give me the fucking keys, you fucking cocksucking moth...
I long for sleep, and for soft English rain. But they do not come.
I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.
I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.
When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.
It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?
It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.
The Australian fans are really friendly and personable; the sense of humour is a lot less dry than the English.
Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go 'LOL' in America.
Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.
I like costumes. I am always dressing up - I'm very English like that.
I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.
