tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post115585156299785302..comments2023-10-19T17:08:35.836+03:00Comments on CORFUCIUS: Corfuciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12583583284918222360noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-1156172912618104692006-08-21T18:08:00.000+03:002006-08-21T18:08:00.000+03:00Glad you liked the party memory. Not sure what to ...Glad you liked the party memory. Not sure what to say about the Guy Christmas letter: doesn't it lack a certain finesse and old-fashioned precision of vocabulary of which GB was capable when not in his cups? Burgess was an educated cove and his outpourings showed it: the letter as it stands reads more like a blunt-edged under-powered parody.Corfuciushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12583583284918222360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-1156163386490618852006-08-21T15:29:00.000+03:002006-08-21T15:29:00.000+03:00Great story, would welcome your views on how to im...Great story, would welcome your views on how to improve authenticity oh Guy's Christmas letter on my website<BR/>http://www.historyforfun.blogspot.com/Author designatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00538946911123757439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-1155940246841909252006-08-19T01:30:00.000+03:002006-08-19T01:30:00.000+03:00Yes, it is. I wish I'd recorded a wav file of the ...Yes, it is. I wish I'd recorded a wav file of the old boy's Edwardian accent as he delivered it.<BR/>Earlier in the evening, he'd delivered me a line I thought long since deceased: he'd tottered over to make drinks for his wife and coterie and I happened to be standing idly by so I offered to be a 2nd pair of hands in transporting the glasses. <BR/>Fixing me a stiff unsmiling look, he handed me Corfuciushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12583583284918222360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097235.post-1155858511874374852006-08-18T02:48:00.000+03:002006-08-18T02:48:00.000+03:00Very nice punchline.Very nice punchline.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com