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... dandy , which means that he is fatally alienated from his roots in the Kipling caste . When he first has a drink with Major Tich- borne , he cannot respond to the ritual ' Here's how ! ' with the same phrase , because that ritual ...
... dandy , which means that he is fatally alienated from his roots in the Kipling caste . When he first has a drink with Major Tich- borne , he cannot respond to the ritual ' Here's how ! ' with the same phrase , because that ritual ...
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... dandy of the English kind - a dandy - gentleman . He made himself the ruling class's jester . In 1967 he and his friend Robert Conquest publicly sup- ported America's role in Vietnam . He said he had been disillusioned with Russia in ...
... dandy of the English kind - a dandy - gentleman . He made himself the ruling class's jester . In 1967 he and his friend Robert Conquest publicly sup- ported America's role in Vietnam . He said he had been disillusioned with Russia in ...
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... dandy , to use his own phrase . " The London I like best is the one I can find in books where it lies embalmed between 1760 and 1840 , the dandies still outnumbering the slums and the fog as yet barely invented . ' But in an essay of ...
... dandy , to use his own phrase . " The London I like best is the one I can find in books where it lies embalmed between 1760 and 1840 , the dandies still outnumbering the slums and the fog as yet barely invented . ' But in an essay of ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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