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People who knew Karl reported his turns of phrase to each other (of ME, a fashionable condition in the 1980s: ‘that disease where your wrists go numb from carrying money home from the bank’ Diary 9 October 2014
The thing to note in this quote from the obituary of Karl Miller, written by Mary Kay Wilmers, the current editor of the London Review of Books, is not that Miller uttered this stupidity at some point but that it is recalled and presented as an example of his trenchant wit and insight, an enduring truth that stirs the soul and tickles the funny bone even now, something to remember him by.
The slavish conformity and lack of curiosity exhibited by both the left and right wing members of the English intellectual and chattering classes is a subject for another day, but the evidence for it is on vivid display here.
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The thing to note in this quote from the obituary of Karl Miller, written by Mary Kay Wilmers, the current editor of the London Review of Books, is not that Miller uttered this stupidity at some point but that it is recalled and presented as an example of his trenchant wit and insight, an enduring truth that stirs the soul and tickles the funny bone even now, something to remember him by.
The slavish conformity and lack of curiosity exhibited by both the left and right wing members of the English intellectual and chattering classes is a subject for another day, but the evidence for it is on vivid display here.
e-mail: edit@lrb.co.uk
London Review of Books
28 Little Russell St.
London, WC1A 2HN
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