“The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion.”
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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
