Basil Seal

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“If you look at the present state of the world, it is pretty plain that humanity has been making some big mistakes. We are on the wrong road. And if that is so, we must go back. Going back is the quickest way on.”

C.S. Lewis

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

W.B. Yeats

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

Our earth in 1969
Is not the planet I call mine
The world, I mean, that gives me strength
To hold off chaos at arm's length

My Eden landscapes & their climes
Are constructs from Edwardian times
When bathrooms took up lots of space
And, before eating, one said Grace…

W.H. Auden

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“If there is a single most deplorable intellectual failing on the conservative side, it lies in reducing every question of law, constitution, culture and society to a question of economics.”

Sir Roger Scruton

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“Looking at those great works of western man & remembering all that hes achieved in philosophy, poetry, science & law-making, it does seem hard to believe that European civilisation can ever vanish. And yet, you know, it has happened once…”

Kenneth Clark

[Bobbie @bo66ie29]

Beautiful 16mm film of the Isle of Wight in the 1950s. Peaceful villages, cottages with thatched roofs, and seaside life all captured on somebody’s home movie.

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir, and the air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behaviour of its inhabitants in 1776.

Bertie Wooster: What happened in 1776, Jeeves?

Jeeves and Wooster