Tuesday 2 November 2010

Some natural law



There is some natural law that ensures that whenever civilization talks to the heathen, it is through the person of the most obstinate, short-sighted, arrogant, tactless clown available. You recall McNaughten at Kabul, perhaps? Well, Allison could have been his prize pupil.


Flashman and the Redskins, p.232, Pan Books edition, 1983.





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