Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Monday, 29 April 2013
The decline of duelling
‘The decline of duelling has ruined more private lives than I care to think of — in my young day nobody’d have dared tittle-tattle the way they do now. Horse-whipping journalists has gone out too.’
Mr American, p.521, Pan Books, paperback edition 1982.
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Friday, 3 February 2012
Curmudgeon at the club
...and I wasn't displeased myself. T'isn't every day you play a part in one of the great journalistic coups, and whenever I see some curmudgeon at the club cursing at the labour of cutting open his Times and then complaining there's no news in the dam' thing. I think, aye, you should see what goes to the making of those paragraphs you take for granted, my boy.
Flashman and the Tiger, pp.42-3, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Nothing like the job
…kings and chancellors confided in him, empresses and grand duchesses whispered him their secrets, prime ministers and ambassadors sought his advice, and while he was up to every smoky dodge in his hunt for news, he never broke a pledge or betrayed a confidence — or so everyone said, Blowitz loudest of all. I guess his appearance helped, for he was nothing like the job at all, being a five-foot butterball with a beaming baby face behind a mighty moustache, innocent blue eyes, bald head, and frightful whiskers a foot long…
Flashman and the Tiger, p.14, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012
His plump little claw
He was reckoned to be the smartest newsman of the time, better than Billy Russell even… Blowitz was a human ferret with his plump little claw on every pulse from Lisbon to the Kremlin…
Flashman and the Tiger, p.14, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.
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Monday, 9 January 2012
Doubtless a government agent
Friday, 6 January 2012
Tricky villains
…I liked him, you see, in spite of his being a journalist. Tricky villains, especially if they work for The Times.
Flashman and the Tiger, p.13, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.
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Thursday, 28 July 2011
A journalistic law
… it’s a journalistic law, you see, that heroes can never do anything ordinary; when Flashy, the Hector of Afghanistan, beats a reluctant retreat, there must be an army howling at his heels, or the public cancel their subscription.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light, pp.335-36, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.
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