tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post3843741740560064411..comments2023-08-26T02:27:21.897-07:00Comments on Frisbee: A Book Journal: Night and Silence Who Is Here?Frisbeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394353185610393979noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-31135401474970877462009-02-23T12:56:00.000-08:002009-02-23T12:56:00.000-08:00In Night and Silence Who Is Here?, Matthew has no ...In Night and Silence Who Is Here?, Matthew has no qualifications for the job and that is part of the humor. At one point he's reading everyone else's resumes with shock and suddenly wants to be a scholar but doesn't even have a degree: as his resume says, he "was educated at Eton and Oxford." <BR/><BR/>How odd that this is how the upper classes live.Frisbeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07394353185610393979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-83356796202859675392009-02-20T17:07:00.000-08:002009-02-20T17:07:00.000-08:00I like the Jane Eyreish day photo. There was one l...I like the Jane Eyreish day photo. There was one like it of Alexandria at dawn: substitute light scarlet streaks in a blue sky for the dark violet.<BR/><BR/>I'm struck from your description how Hanford-Jones is describing the British upper classes. Even today they need not work for a living for real: no 48-50 week a year drudgery. all networking based on the slimist of excuses for achievement. Now she runs the present UK Trollope Society. That's a problem: it limits her vision of what's wanted.<BR/><BR/>EllenEllenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14979942382683140531noreply@blogger.com