Tag/category: Stephen Fry
Rosamund Zander missed a possibility this morning
Not for the first time, Stephen Fry made an observation recently that has echoed through my activities of the following week. In Jonathan Ross’ comeback show he observed a (generalised) difference between Americans and English, the optimisim of one versus the defeatism of the latter. Indeed, as I recall Kate Fox writing in Watching the English, there’s an Eeyorishness about …
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Blackadder – answers to my own poll
Friends – I can’t possibly match you for erudition or wit, so I will make my answers short and sweet and follow it with a couple of anecdotes and factoids.
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Why fiction is better than fact
‘I’ve got it now. It’s reading, isn’t it? You read a lot, don’t you, Fry? That’s where it all comes from.’ I never saw him again without a book somewhere on his person. I heard some years later that he’d got into Cambridge. Stephen Fry, Moab is My Washpot Reading is good for you, no doubt about that. The fact …
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