Our favorite doctor takes a trip to an antiques market in search of new books to add to his vast library while contemplating the increasing proletarianization of English (and much of Western) culture.
I would like to wish all of our readers a very Merry Christmas.
Unfortunately, affectation when continued long enough becomes authentic habit, and now in Britain the relentless march of downward cultural aspiration has borne fruit. To a natural national propensity to lumpenness has been added an ideological approval of coarseness and a hatred of aesthetic refinement, with the sole exception of culinary art.
Merry Christmas! Thank you for your work on this excellent site – have been following it for years now. God bless!
Thank you for the kind comment, Rebekah. I wish you all the best for 2021. God help us all.
Thanks, and merry Christmas!
Thanks for being there!
Off topic, but I have quoted briefly from Theodore Dalrymple at the end of my most recent blog post.
https://carlwellsbooks.com/blog/
Best,
Carl Wells