"Charles II, himself a crypto-Catholic libertine, was reputedly appalled by James's folly in matters of religion and sex: 'My brother will lose his kingdom by his bigotry, and his soul for a lot of ugly trollops.'" John Mullan
The Brideshead pages
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Friday, January 6, 2012
Mary Wolstencraft
Reading about her last night it struck me that a lot of Wollstonecraft's behaviour suggests something like fetal alcohol syndrome.
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