Eating People Is Wrong - Page 2

On English provincialism (substitute today's America and you won't be too wrong):

Poor man, he has tried to show us all that foreigners aren't funny; but they are. After all, there was one thing that every Englishman knew from his very soul, and that was that, for all experiences and all manners, in England lay the norm; England was the country that God had got to first, properly, and here life was taken to the point of purity, to it's Platonic source, so that all ways elsewhere were underdeveloped, or impure, or overripe. Everyone in England knew this, and an occasion like the present one was not likely to prove that things had altered. I have lived in England, was the underlying statement, and I know what life is like

Read the novel not only for the farce, which is plentiful, but also for it's considerable social insight, which will make you return to it time after time.

Crossposted at Koranteng's Toli

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  • 1 - Bryce Eddings

    Nov 23, 2004 at 8:51 pm

    Listed on Advance

  • 2 - Theo

    Apr 20, 2012 at 3:01 am

    Suggest you inform your reviewer that the possessive pronoun "its" is spelled without an apostrophe.

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