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Showing posts with label Auberon Waugh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Auberon Waugh. Show all posts

Monday, 1 December 2014

The Great Gatsby is "chick lit" disguised as literature

THE PROBLEM WITH WESTERN CIVILISATION

Tom Buchanan, the husband of Daisy Buchanan, the novel's principal woman character, says:

"Civilization’s going to pieces,” broke out Tom violently. “I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read “The Rise of the Colored Empires’ by this man Goddard?" "Why no,” I answered, rather surprised by his tone." "Well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be — will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved." "Tom’s getting very profound,” said Daisy, with an expression of unthoughtful sadness. “He reads deep books with long words in them. What was that word we — " "Well these books are all scientific,” insisted Tom, glancing at her impatiently. “This fellow has worked out the whole thing. It’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things." "We’ve got to beat them down," whispered Daisy, winking ferociously toward the fervent sun. “You ought to live in California —” began Miss Baker, but Tom interrupted her by shifting heavily in his chair. “This idea is that we’re Nordics. I am, and you are, and you are, and —” After an infinitesimal hesitation he included Daisy with a slight nod, and she winked at me again. “ — And we’ve produced all the things that go to make civilization — oh, science and art, and all that. Do you see?” There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more.

Goddard was really STODDARD

‘Stoddard argued that race and heredity were the guiding factors of history and civilization and that the elimination or absorption of the "white" race by "colored" races would result in the destruction of Western civilization.

Some predictions made in The Rising Tide of Color were accurate; others were not. Accurate ones — not all of which were original to Stoddard or predicated on white supremacy — include Japan's rise as a major power; a war between Japan and the USA; a second war in Europe; the overthrowing of European colonial empires in Africa and Asia; the mass migration of non-white peoples to white countries; and the rise of Islam as a threat to the West because of Muslim religious fanaticism (Stoddard was an Islamic scholar and published the book, The New World of Islam in 1921.)

In The Revolt Against Civilization (1922), Stoddard put forward the theory that civilization places a growing burden on individuals, leading to a growing underclass of individuals who cannot keep up and a 'ground-swell of revolt'. Stoddard advocated immigration restriction and birth control legislation in order to reduce the numbers of the underclass while promoting the growth of the middle and upper classes. He believed social progress was impossible unless it was guided by a "neo-aristocracy" made up of the most capable individuals and reconciled with the findings of science rather than based on abstract idealism and egalitarianism.’

Read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy or see the movie, and you will have an idea who the enemy within is.

After reading Simon Sheppard's Sex and Power you will know exactly what the problem is. The rotten apple referred to in the film that was at right at the top of the tree was the wife of a senior intelligence officer.
http://thebattlefieldoflove.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/there-is-rotten-apple-jim-right-at-top.html

How strange that men can watch a film that only men are expected to like and not get any of the subtle references.

The point is that Smiley's wife fucked the mole and caused all that trouble, death and mayhem. At the end of the movie you saw him stroking her head when he should have given her a clout.

As for GATSBY, it seems men who have read it are blind to the fact that Daisy Buchanan was really the very worst kind of woman - an adulteress, a mother who wanted her daughter to grow up to become a "beautiful fool", who caused so many deaths, and no man passes any comment about her except me.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

The Victorians would call this sort of a woman a SIREN.

British men would mostly be OK about having a wife like Daisy Buchanan or Smiley's. Indeed, most of them can't see anything wrong with any of this at all, as long as the sex is good, even as they continue blaming the coloured races, Jews, Catholics, Muslims etc for their decline and fall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherchez_la_femme

a French phrase which literally means "look for the woman." The implication is that a man behaves out of character or in an otherwise inexplicable manner because he is trying to cover up an affair with a woman, or trying to impress or gain favor with a woman.



The Trojan War was about a man getting his adulterous wife back.  Read The Trojan Women by Euripides to see how Helen gets away with all the trouble she caused. She takes no responsibility whatsoever. As for stoning women to death for adultery, it is interesting to know that this idea does not come from the Koran or even solely from the Bible, but from the Greeks. This was what Hecabe, widow of Priam, King of Troy, proposed should happen to adulterous women, especially Helen.  

This is how women can cause collective neurosis in men. It becomes very dangerous when this collective neurosis affects men in positions of power and influence.

In the film of TINKER TAILOR Ann was seductive and powerful. In both versions of GATSBY, Daisy was simply insufferable.

Fitzgerald got the story of Gatsby from a newspaper report of a similar tragedy, so it was based on a true story.

Perhaps Le Carre was trying to make a point. Perhaps Fitzgerald was too, but without even knowing it.

Fitzgerald married an upper class woman who was a siren with mental health issues.

Fitzgerald praises Gatsby though. He even eulogises him for having "the quality of hope". Disgusting. But then it is libtard feelgood CRAP that most women love so much.

Women of course love that novel. They fantasise about some rich and powerful man who could have it all destroying himself over them.

Perhaps that explains its great popularity. It is really shit chick lit disguised as literature. Fitzgerald was also a DRUNK.

Women are now mostly in charge and senior men in positions of power and influence defer to women they find attractive unthinkingly and unquestioningly, however rotten their morals,.  For to question this practice would be to admit that they had been wrong all their lives to promote Free Love and even  now say that it is all harmless, innocent joyous fun because they are all right, Jack. If they can get away with going to their graves without being caught out or having to recant, that is precisely what they intend to do.

http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/why-did-lorraine-kelly-have-her-tits.html Sadly, Naim Attallah is one of these many men in a position of influence. I am sure commercial considerations also apply.

Clearly, http://quartetbooks.co.uk/shop/venus


would sell much much better than

Photo of 'Sex and Power' front cover
Click to order Simon Sheppard's Sex and Power


Feminists seize publishing

The Bhagavad Gita:

"Out of the corruption of women proceeds the corruption of races; out of the corruption of races, the loss of memory; out of the loss of memory, the loss of understanding, and out of this all evil." 

Feminazi laws to end British tradition of pantos at Christmas

The incestuous nature of British book publishing and the inevitability of feminist censorship

Interestingly, the only novelist of any talent in Bron's family is Bron's wife IMHO.

I have today ordered The Gossips and The House from Amazon. Her latest I may just leave till it comes out in paperback. What I love about them is the pellucid prose, and the fact that there is always a moral to her stories. I remember complaining bitterly to Bron about his relations just writing any old rubbish cobbled together from their lives and still managing to get published. I do have all Bron's novels but I have to be honest and say I didn't think they were much cop either. Turbulent Decade http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Diaries-Auberon-Waugh-Turbulent/dp/0233978119 was what made me fall in love with him.

I don't imagine that I will be receiving a review copy of Daisy Waugh's latest book, which has been compared to The Great Gatsby.





Friday, 27 June 2014

Richard Ingrams on dictators, antisemitism, feminism, homosexuality, child abuse and Auberon Waugh

http://quartetbooks.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/richard-ingrams/

Dictators
Mary and I had dinner with Mosley once and I was most impressed. His political charisma was clearly defined. At a certain point the conversation stopped and he began to speak about what was going on in the country and what ought to be done. Then he started to wave his arms and it all became slightly hypnotic and quite frightening.

Antisemitism
People such as Balfour, who were responsible for the State of Israel coming into being, were quite anti-Semitic and believed that creating a Jewish state would be a good way to get the Jews out of their own countries. It’s always seemed to me that the Gentiles most keen on Israel are anti-Semitic.
 The Jews are saying to the Palestinians, we don’t want you people; this is our country; we must keep our race pure. But because there are so many powerful Jewish lobbies, particularly in the United States, you’re made to feel guilty, or you’re attacked for anti-Semitism, if you mention the fact of racism in Israel.

Margaret Thatcher and Feminism 
I used to admire Mrs Thatcher quite a lot and I think she has done many good things. As a journalist, one is aware of how the printing unions have been crushed by her, and they undoubtedly were a restriction on the press. For example, you could never have started a paper like the Independent in the old days. There is no doubt, on the other hand, that she has been in power too long and has grown to be power mad. It happens to all those people. In my experience, women (this is a sexist remark) are unable to cope with power, not only in politics, but also in publishing, journalism, or whatever. Women in positions of authority can’t do it as a rule, or else they manage for a time, but after a while they crack up.

People say there should be more women in politics, but one of the good things about women is that on the whole they don’t want to go into that world. They are not in general ambitious, they don’t want power; or if they do want it they want to exercise it over individual men, not over men and women generally. The reason why there aren’t more women MPs is not because men are prejudice against them but because there are so few women who actually want to do it. Men and women have totally different urges, most men being ruled by women within marriages, for instance. Dr Johnson was absolutely correct in saying that law has wisely given women little power because Nature has given them so much.

I wouldn’t wish to attack individual feminists, but I do feel it’s dangerous for women to think they are better off without men or vice versa. It seems to me that we both need each other, yet the whole women’s movement is geared to the idea that women should dispense with these dirty, nasty men. It’s the same the other way round: men can’t get by without women. It’s natural for women to want to have children, and encouraging them to think that somehow they’re better off pursuing a career seems to me a wicked thing to do. It asks women to turn their backs on their natural instincts and produces much unhappiness.

I feel sure that feminism is in part responsible for our huge number of divorces, because women are encouraged to think that, if they are unhappy in their marriages, they have no reason to stay enslaved to a man; that if they don’t like it they should just give up. That’s wrong, and it is just as wrong for a man to make the same assumption. Women have a natural urge to kick over the traces, as I’ve constantly found with those I’ve employed on Private Eye. Every so often they think, sod this, I’m off to do something else. If you apply that urge to a marriage, then it can’t be a good thing.

Homosexuals
My antipathy to homosexuals is directed against homosexual campaigners rather than individual homosexuals. If I’m sitting side by side with a homosexual at lunch, I’m not going to get up and spit in his face since I don’t feel that individual repugnance. I don’t feel repelled by homosexuals if I meet them. I do object, on the other hand, to the politicizing of homosexuality and the propaganda and promotion of the idea, because I don’t believe in the notion being peddled that people are born that way and there is nothing to be done about it. It may well be true of some homosexuals, but the vast majority of those I know seem to me to be quite capable of heterosexual activity and to have a choice. Promoting the idea that they ought to make a choice in favour of the homosexual way of life therefore seems to me a great mistake.

Child abuse
Child abuse, for example, has become a major issue on television, and a kind of hysteria has been worked up because it is something on which everyone can agree. No one, except possibly Bron, will get up and speak for the child abuser, but all will agree he is terrible. In the same way, it is very easy for a vicar to make awful statements about South Africa in a sermon since no one will contradict him. All the time people try to get on these bandwagons of consensus issues.

Thursday, 12 June 2014

Auberon Waugh and me

http://ask.fm/oneparty4all/answer/114571720833
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Friday, 3 August 2012

Would you be more likely to vote for BNP or UKIP if I were leader?

Me looking benign and mumsy

Do you remember this man?  I like to think my style is reminiscent of his.  For years, I was in an adulterous relationship with him.   But I would do it all over again (and, yes, be lashed 100 times for it too) for he taught me much and I did love him dearly. I hate all this name-dropping but it seems I might as well make political out of this before even his memory, and the memory of men like him, is lost forever.  I apologise in advance to his widow,  Lady Teresa, whose novels I actually enjoyed more than her husband's.  
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kiss-Me-Chudleigh-According-Auberon/dp/1444711490/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344254312&sr=8-1


Me looking magisterial

If you like my aphorisms at http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/aphorisms-of-claire-khaw.html you may think UKIP would benefit from having me as a prominent member.  I do not deny that I have an interest in philosophy, theology, religion and morality and would like to be acknowledged as a Revolutionary Philosopher.

MESSAGE TO UKIP LEADERSHIP AND ITS MEMBERSHIP

UKIP's fortunes would be transformed if I became its Director of Communications and its Anti-Feminist Policy Consultant.

http://thebattlefieldoflove.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/too-many-women-have-vote-and-solution.html

If that were done, the goal of rivalling and surpassing the LibDems ie obtain around 7M votes at the next General Election would be a realistic goal.

I do not have a racist bone in my body and dare anyone to cite anything at all racist I have ever said, unless joining the BNP in order to help the marginalised white working classes who are currently being exploited by Nick Griffin is in itself evidence of racism.

Despite UKIP's fear of saying anything racist, it can be seen from the June issue of Searchlight that it is now targeting UKIP and the Traditional Britain Group.

If you were to accept me as a member then you should also accept Eddy Butler  to mop up BNP supporters who have already declared themselves to be civic nationalists.

I have not said anything that I do not feel to be intellectually or morally defensible and cannot help it if the easily-offended British public are so easily offended. There is no future in being seen to submit to the views of the strong but gullible monster that is public opinion, and there are ways of dealing with them.  This I shall do when you make me Director of Communications.

Believe me, the British voter wants to hear some properly radical policies and is tired of mealy-mouthed platitudes.  Boring them to death by pretending to be "serious politicians" some more - as UKIP discovered during the May GLA elections - will do nothing for the reputations and fortunes of the Eurosceptic parties.

If there is anything you wish to clarify I would be very happy to meet your National Executive Committee so that I can more quickly reassure you all.

The best thing for UKIP to do is conduct a YouGov poll of male voters only.

Those of you who think UKIP would do well to have me please let them know that you think UKIP would get more votes if I were to be its Director of Communications.

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Monday, 7 March 2011

Susan Crosland's Funeral - 4 March 2010

Susan's very elegant Basket Coffin

Susan's grand-daughter Sacha
Lord Lipsey giving his speech on Political Wives not being what they once were

Lady Jane Rayne

Susan's daughter, Sheila

Michael Barnes, retired-MP for Brentford and Chiswick


Robert Posner

Lord Lipsey

Ellen Craig and others

The Wimpole Room, Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street

Robert Lacey of "Majesty" with Therese Lawson drawing on her smokeless cigarette

Robert Lacey, Lady Jane Rayne and Therese Lawson

Ellen Craig (left), Diana Melly (right)

Perhaps this is the funeral Ed Miliband, the current leader of the Labour Party, should have attended, if he cared anything for the ideological traditions of his party, for  Susan was the widow of the late Tony Crosland, the Labour Cabinet Minister who wrote The Future of Socialism.  It was he who famously declared that he would "destroy every single fucking grammar school in England".  Perhaps Ed was too busy struggling to recreate Labour ideology to come.  I did hear that he in fact rang to give his condolences and that he would "send something".  (I do not know if he did or if he did what it was.)

http://www.fabians.org.uk/events/events/why-ideology-matters

I remember Ed made a speech on the subject in Grimsby in 2006 http://www.fabians.org.uk/events/speeches/why-does-ideology-matter peppered with references to the "good society" without bothering to define it.  It was then that I noticed what a beautiful young man he was with his long well-formed limbs.  His speech however was stupendously dull and went over the heads of those long-suffering Fabians who attended.  One of them confessed to me in the ladies that she didn't really know why she turned up any  more.

Friday was cold, blue and bright.  I walked up the elegant and undulating path of West London Cemetery (formerly known as Kensal Green Cemetery), immortalised in the lines of G. K. Chesterton's poem The Rolling English Road from his book The Flying Inn:

"For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen;

Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green."

I saw Robert Posner and Verushka Wyatt.  Verushka appeared to recognise me.  We shook hands solemnly and I mentioned how I first met her and her late husband at a Literary Review party in happier times. Woodrow Wyatt (who was also another Voice of Reason) has been dead for 14 years, she told me, and she is no longer in that big house.  It is odd to even think of describing such a distinguished old lady as "fresh-faced", but that was how she seemed, though a little fragile-looking now.  She has the look of woman once known for her beauty (which at the time of our last meeting I had not noticed particularly) and I remembered her for her liveliness and humour, and the way she teased Woodrow at the party.

The old reprobate and charmer Robert Posner (who had been Business Manager of the Literary Review) looked just as he did 10 years ago at Auberon Waugh's funeral, smelling of cigarettes.   We sat together at the service.

The last basket coffin funeral I attended made me take against them rather, but I was charmed by the femininity and elegance of Susan's.  The service was held in West Chapel.
http://www.kensalgreencemetery.com/crematorium/index.html and conducted very well by a British Humanist Celebrant.  It may have been Trevor Moore http://humanist.org.uk/trevormoore/

One of the more distinctly humanist things we were asked to do was to think of Susan while Pachelbel's Canon was being played.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvNQLJ1_HQ0&feature=related  (It wasn't this version though.)

Lady Jane Rayne (whom Susan always mentioned with affection and gratitude) told us of the occasion when they were in a restaurant about to leave.  The waiters overheard Susan expressing regret that she would take an age to make her way to the exit of the restaurant on her crutches.  Without further ado, two waiters came and lifted Susan's chair (with her on it) to the exit, just as if they were her litter-bearers.  (I did not catch the name of this restaurant.)

Lord Lipsey made a most interesting political speech on the subject of political wives.  Susan was not a socialist, he declared.  Her interests were rather wider than socialism and her ability to attract many more friends outside socialism than within was testament to that.  Nevertheless, she was a good political wife and helped her husband win Grimsby, which was rather ironic considering her extremely privileged background of being a Vassar girl and a member of the New England gentry.   He did not mention the egregious Sally Bercow who is proving to be the ruin of her husband's career.  In politics, one disastrous personal decision - such as marrying a woman just because you fancy her, without concerning yourself too much about her character or her morals - can be the ruin of one's hopes and future.  It would not be so bad if John Bercow was a talentless bore, but he is one of the few members of Parliament still capable of the well-turned phrase, so it is sad indeed to have a promising political career destroyed by the fancies of a man's lust.

It made me wonder whether if I were to marry Peter Mandelson as I so dearly wish to do, how well I would be able to carry out that role.   However, since Peter has always been a pragmatist and is pretty much an ideology-free zone, I think I could do OK, as long as we agree to disagree about my views and my political connections, which are probably wider and deeper than his, now that my tentacles reach all stratas of British society.

I did once ask Susan if she had met Peter and she said she had, remarking that she found him to be "very pleased with himself."

The service ended when we were told to applaud Susan while the curtain above her coffin slowly came down.

Fortunately for everyone else, I successfully resisted the temptation to shout "encore!"

The reception was held at The Wimpole Room of The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, W1.
http://www.onewimpolestreet.co.uk/rooms/wimpole-room.php and was booked in the name of the Rayne Foundation.  http://www.raynefoundation.org.uk/

Michael Barnes the retired MP of Brentford and Chiswick very generously gave me a lift there.   His wife who also attended the funeral did not come because she had to walk the dog.

Robert Lacey of Majesty http://www.robertlacey.com/book/majesty and http://www.robertlacey.com/book/inside-kingdom was there, discussing the King's Speech with Therese Lawson, who was sucking on one of those smokeless cigarettes.  (This was the first time I had seen one of those things.)  Therese informed us that her mother was complaining, rather like Peter Hitchens, that the whole story had been sexed up for the vulgar crowd, which made her very cross. Robert Lacey however declared the film to be historically accurate.  Therese recommended a restaurant in Winchester, but I forget its name now.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-susan-crosland-and-therese-lawson-1577833.html

It was only afterwards that I realised that Rosemary Lamont who introduced herself to me was the heroine of this story at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1401546/Lamonts-ex-wife-challenges-gunman.html.  I feel very privileged indeed to have met her, and we briefly discussed the subject of political wives and how one keeps in touch with everyone else anyway just because one plays bridge. I trust she had a very enjoyable dinner with her ex-husband Lord Lamont that evening.

The red wine was very good and the hot canapes delicious.  They were Susan's favourite, apparently.  

Tuesday, 7 September 2010

The Week (21/8/10): Peter Mandelson's 5 Books and Mine

Best Books ... Peter Mandelson

Peter Mandelson, former Labour Minister and European Commissioner and one of the key architects of New Labour, chooses his five favourite political books.  His memoir, The Third Man, has just been published.

The Making of the Prime Minister by Anthony Howard and Richard West 1965 (out of print)
"This book cemented my childhood infatuation with politics.  It chronicled the rise of our neighbour, Harold Wilson, and his coming to power in 1964.  He seemed to sweep my family into No 10 with him, and the events of the next six years dominated our mealtime discussions."

The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister by Richard Crossman, 1975 (out of print)
"Dick Crossman's diaries taught me a great deal about politics.  Like Alastair Campbell's they tell you more about the author's mind that objective reality, but I am sure that's what some people say about The Third Man.  At least I have given a lot of time to reflection since I started writing years ago and, I hope to the sort of candour not usually associated with a ministerial memoir."

Germinal by Emile Zola, 1885 (Penguin Classics £9.99)
"This book aroused intense feelings in me while I was trekking in Rwanda on my gap year.  It tells of thwarted love and workers' struggles in 19th century France - both preoccupations of mine at the time.  The book and my experiences in Africa cleared my head, and I went up to Oxford feeling more mature than many contemporaries.  I shall return to Zola and see whether he can help clear the decks for the next stage."

The Prince by Niccoloa Machiavelli, 1513 (Penguin Classics £6.99)
"This is a book I've dipped into.  My association with it is Robert Harris' fault.  He did a profile of me for The Observer in 1987, headlined "Machiavelli comes to Walworth Road".  Sometimes you can't help the truth sticking."

Lustrum by Robert Harris 2010 (Arrow £7.99)
"The second of my friend Robert's promised trilogy.  It combines brilliant writing and wry humour with meticulous research into the characters of Cicero, Caesar and much besides.  You can translate the narrative into contemporary political times if you wish.  A masterpiece (dedicated to me)."

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