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...Prince of Wales: "Across the wires the electric message came:/ 'He is no better. He is much the same.' " Occasional verse itself, poetry on demand, almost always leads to things like that. It would be difficult for any poet, laureate or not, to surpass the Englishman Samuel Carter's "Paean" to the London sewer system: "Magnificent, too, is the system of drains,/ Exceeding the far-spoken wonders of old/ . . . Well did the ancient proverb lay down this important text/ That cleanliness for human weal to godliness is next...
...still selling. And so are many of the 27 other books that Household, now 79, has turned out since. They are set all over the world, and told by a variety of narrators. But some of the best, like The Sending, unwind in the mind of a Somerset Englishman. There the old white magic continues to cast its spell...
...coat pocket and turns out to be the kind of "familiar" (a supernatural spirit-animal form) familiar to witchcraft. He learns that he has modest occult powers himself and eventually converses with one of "the Purpose's" top executives, a gentleman, polite enough but obviously not an Englishman. When this personage inquires as to the source of Alfgif's powers, the reply comes: "No power at all beyond the concentration of the master craftsman...
...proctor of our dormitory was Joshua Whatmough, associate professor of Analytical Philology. He was an Englishman, small of stature and short on humor. We boys made life miserable for the poor man. But he liked me pretty well because I felt sorry for him and thought some of the boys went too far in teasing him. But we were all surprised (and pleased) when he got married a year or two later. We had him pegged as a lifetime bachelor. Among other things, he had a thermometer calibrated to tell him which underwear to put on at which temperature...
Long is a notable case in this art-historical irony, a man who became a professional artist almost in spite of himself. The young Englishman did not start out at the easel, studiously painting still lifes and landscapes. Instead, his art came out of his life, out of his long walks in the wilderness, out of the miles he has traversed in places as diverse as England, Africa and the Arctic. His first works of art were direct factual documentations of his wanderings--maps and photographs carefully recording the trips. Sometimes Long would establish a program; in "164 Stones...