Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Literary brawl …

… A Forgotten Waugh | The American Spectator. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

What gives the Waugh-Oldmeadow title fight its particular significance, unrepeatable in our egalitarian epoch, is its gentlemanly language. The combatants exhibited an ire that would not have been out of place on cage-fighters in a Bangkok brothel. But they expressed their ire in the lexicon of Downton Abbey. Could this joust acquire a fresh import in an age awash in religious scandals?

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