tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post1494436594470706044..comments2024-03-29T05:24:12.453+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERScall me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-28033136987854495412009-08-18T09:34:29.029+01:002009-08-18T09:34:29.029+01:00A hulking, brooding and unlikely Narcissus, it wil...A hulking, brooding and unlikely Narcissus, it will be good sport, his contest with the facetious,smirking, overdressed dilletante; if the arbiter were merely personal repellence, Waite would romp home. Waite and Rantzen, eh, a cure more malign than the complaint, itself; a nightmare purgative.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-53235179102125028312009-08-18T06:07:54.612+01:002009-08-18T06:07:54.612+01:00We must not expose ourselves to misinterpretation,...We must not expose ourselves to misinterpretation, fawning flatteries, temperament, character, or circumstance, nor must we be detected bartering the higher aspirations of life, like those by sculptor graven for niches in a temple. That oily and servile, bulky figure--I confess I have had my doubts. He affected the tone of an impartial observer, varied and animated, watchful, suspicious, and timid, spitting the glory of salvation, while violating all decency with a kind of beggarly flimsiness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-54013926809566176662009-08-17T11:45:41.199+01:002009-08-17T11:45:41.199+01:00Our Tel said "Its a mans life in the Church o...Our Tel said "Its a mans life in the Church of England" mainly because he was a spy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com