The Janeites (2013)
“These overblown expressions are a way of simplifying complicated structures. PermRep like all politicians lends himself to caricature but the reality is a bundle, complex and devious and tortuous, like most people. He’s stiff with employees, talks about precision, exactitude. ‘Don’t ever use a phrase like round-about-midnight, he’ll ask whether you mean ten to or a quarter past.’ He runs a tight ship; is rigid, fussy, suspicious, authoritarian. Paranoid is a silly word because it’s lazy.
Pa...rtly it would be his upbringing, and schooling. Fifty years ago he would have been given to Latin quotations, and still corrects the punctuation in written reports. Partly it’s an inheritance of moral principles and political certainties. He has an annoying way of always being in-the-right, and rubbing-it-in. Being without humour is no help. Recently he seems to have been unusually tetchy. He hasn’t been feeling very well, and hasn’t made up his mind what to do about it.MoreLess
Pa...rtly it would be his upbringing, and schooling. Fifty years ago he would have been given to Latin quotations, and still corrects the punctuation in written reports. Partly it’s an inheritance of moral principles and political certainties. He has an annoying way of always being in-the-right, and rubbing-it-in. Being without humour is no help. Recently he seems to have been unusually tetchy. He hasn’t been feeling very well, and hasn’t made up his mind what to do about it.MoreLess
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