I love this. The quiet irony is far more heartbreaking and chilling than more directly emotional writing.
And the thought of a, presumably, liberal writer, forced to write something like: "I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Hitler more." Ouch! A reminder to be grateful we weren't born in North Korea!
"I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Hitler more." Ouch!
It has to be said that Hardy, while not intellectually a Nazi, is, as vilakins says, a whore, and has always written what he thought would sell. But I am always grateful - particularly when I go for a walk in the country - that I do not live in North Korea.
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on 2009-11-28 07:26 am (UTC)And the thought of a, presumably, liberal writer, forced to write something like: "I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Hitler more." Ouch! A reminder to be grateful we weren't born in North Korea!
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on 2009-11-28 07:54 am (UTC)"I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Hitler more." Ouch!
It has to be said that Hardy, while not intellectually a Nazi, is, as