Sunday, October 25, 2020

Appreciation during a time of plague …

… Killing time with Agatha Christie by Anthony Daniels | The New Criterion. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

A static, changeless world never existed, but after a certain age, at least, many of us like to imagine that it once did, by contrast with our restless, dissatisfied, jangling world in which nothing is solid, predictable, or lasting, and everything beautiful (we think) is in the process of being destroyed. Of course, such a vision will not appeal to those who do not believe that present mirth hath present laughter, and believe instead that what’s to come is sure to be better; when they turn to murder books, they want something grittier, more truthful to reality, and possibly even more sordid. If squalor be the root of crime, give me excess of it.

What a wonderful paragraph. Of course, you have to know your Shakespeare. 

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