Edward Garnett and his diligent blue pencil
Edward Garnett, radical, pacifist, freethinker, Russophile man of letters, was from the 1890s onwards for many years the pre-eminent fixer…
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‘I don’t think you can take the sound of
your own voice as one of the tracks.’
‘We are innocent Russian tourists on riding holiday, looking forward to a good hack…’
‘Brian’s off to watch the golf.’
‘What I thought might be fun is, we sign a final deal which then immediately shreds itself.’
‘It’s a dancing competition in which the judges give their scores, the public votes, and each week a couple are unfaithful.’
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‘I fear he’s the bearer of bad news.’
Modern competitive wives
‘Finnegans Woke’
‘Grr! It’s the deep state trying to
undermine Jeremy Corbyn.’