Re: SOGA - criteria for reject or repair?

On 24 Aug, 21:52, Alex Heney <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Since he got rid of his "if you..." sig line, he has become far more
aggressive and nasty altogether.

Since posting my previous response, the thought occurred to me that
you might care to read part of Donald Trefusis's auto-obituary, a work
which he described as "simple, manly and refreshingly dishonest":

[quote]
'The philological establishment was set about its ears last night by
the cruel snatching away at the early age of seventy-four of one of
its brightest lights, Donald Neville Scarafucile Packenham-Sackville
Trefusis, who died peacefully in his sleep/fell into the River Cam/ate
a botulistic scallop/was foully murdered by a bookseller/took his own
life/was electrocuted by wetting his bed with the electric blanket
still switched on/fell into an acid bath . . . delete where
applicable.

....His knowledge of seven Vietnamese dialects proved invaluable to the
ultimate victory of the Vietcong over America. Indeed his work for
International Communism, both as spy and as recruiter of agents for
the Soviet Union, China and his beloved Bulgaria, cannot be
overestimated.

To those who knew him and worked with him, Trefusis was catty,
rebarbative and treacherous. He gladly let fools suffer and it is said
of him that his impatience and intellectual conceit was almost Oxonian
in its breadth. He believed, however, in students, teaching for forty
years with undiminished pleasure. His hatred and contempt was reserved
entirely for his colleagues and for journalists, whom he would often
go out of his way to kill. He married, in 1943, Dagmar, the daughter
of Sir Arnold Baverstock the noted child molester.

In 1986 a new career opened up for him as popular wireless essayist on
BBC Radio, where his laboured pedantry and contrived acidity won him a
new, unlettered audience. It is perhaps the ordinary Briton who will
be most affected with delight by his passing.

The death of Donald Trefusis leaves a gap in British academic life
that is easy to fill. Application to St Matthew's College, King
Edward's Passage, Cambridge.'

[unquote]

Will your own effort be as grand as that?

I wonder if it could be.

--
x If you have been, are you less so?
/|\

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