Whilst you scrape and scrap and spend more than 50% of your monthly income on rent, the taxes you pay are being used to house immigrants in social housing.
You should be outraged about this.
“We wish you a Merry Christmas-”
“What reason is there to be Merry? I do wish you’d stop indulging these fantasies. Britain is doomed and warnings when it still might have been saved went unheeded. Signed copies of my writing to this end may be ordered from Blackwells in Oxford”
May you, dearest, have a good rest; I enjoy every moment of these Christmas days twice as much when I remember that you are able to rest and recover.
Franz Kafka, 1912.
We shouldn’t need ‘protected cultures’.
The whole thing implies some kind of artificial transformation of our nation ; and we will simply be keeping a few relics as we undergo this process.
The scene in Wind in the Willows in which Mole and Rat encounter a god is preceded by one of the best descriptions of the transition to liminal sacred spaces I have read. How odd that a childrens’ story about anthropomorphic animals boasts finer wordcraft than most modern authors produce for adults