Straight
From this journal’s Sunday sermon:
“Flowers’s thoughts stray to Brown,
with affectionate pity, as he
drinks port and eats walnuts
for the first time in
Senior Combination Room.”
— G. H. Hardy recounting the plot
of A Fellow of Trinity
| A Glossary of Cambridge:
Combination Room |
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George Herbert’s “Redemption” —
But first he has to find him…. Either he’s just left or he hasn’t been seen, but then, unexpectedly and in the most unlikely circumstances, he turns up:
Before he or his reader can ask ‘what on earth are you doing here?,’ the final line provides an answer with a compact swiftness that is literally breathtaking:
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For Senior Combination Room as
a den of thieves and murderers,
see That Hideous Strength.
Related material:
G. H. Hardy died at 70
on December 1, 1947.
That date is now observed as
“Day Without Art.”
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for further details.